Kőszeghy Péter (szerk.): Szent Ágoston doktornak elmélkedő, magánbeszélő és naponként való imádsági (Pécsi Lukács ford.) / Uray Piroska tanulmánya ( MTAK-MTA Irodalomtudományi Intézet. Budapest, 1988)

Lukács Pécsi lived in the last third of the sixteenth century in Nagyszombat (now Trnava, Czechoslovakia), in the citadel of the Counter reformation. He committed himself, in every respect, to the service of the Catholic church, as the attorney of the Esztergom chapter, as the corrector, later director, of the only press then in Catholic hands, and, last but not least, as writer. In his literary work he chose, however, a way of diffusion of the faith quite different from that of his collaborators, Miklós Telegdi and András Monoszlói who, in turn, defended the Catholic faith by controversial tracts and propagated it by books of sermons. The task of Lukács Pécsi was to win over the plain believers and provide them ethical education. He started to realize this program by editing and publishing the series of the Nagyszombat calender, then, as of the 1590s, his pious books containing moral instructions as well as counsels on Christian life appeared, the first of which is the book entitled Szent Ágoston doktornak elmélkedő, magánbeszélő és naponként való imádsági (Doctor St. Augustine's meditating, monologuing and daily prayers.) This work, of early medieval origins but attributed to Augustine, was very popular in those days. One of the havens for the man of that age who is haunted by anguish, disappointment in the world as well as in himself, experience of the crisis, could be unity with God.