Cseri Miklós - Horváth Anita - Szabó Zsuzsanna (szerk.): Discover Rural Hungary!, Guide (Szentendre, Hungarian Open Air Museum, 2007)

VIII Bakony, Balaton-Uplands - VIII-8 House from Nyirád

Calvary from Gyulafirátót The path beside the cemetery rises towards the Calvary, consisting of fourteen stations, which was built in sections depending upon donations given by the faithful. The first wooden cross in Gyulafirátót was set up at the end of the 18th century. The present-day stone crosses, with a cast iron figure of Christ on the middle one were erected in 1897. The iron plate pictures of the Stations of the Cross were completed in 1903. The Calvary in the museum was reconstructed to its pre-20th century appearance. The pictures depicting the Way of the Cross and the death of Jesus are placed in the arched niches of the stone pillars. The iron plate pictures are reproductions from the Calvary from Bóly, as the originals were destroyed. Calvary The location of Christs sacrifice was the Calvary or the Skulls Hill. The building of the Stations of the Cross in the open-air dates back to the period when pilgrimages to the Holy Land became impossible due to the Islamic conquest. Believers could travel symbolically through the Stations of the Cross from the house of Pontius Pilate to the place of crucifixion. The number of stations was fixed at 14 in the 18th century. Calvaries spread through the country at the time of Counter Reformation. pSSKCKKSSP \ r I