{"id":1787,"date":"2026-11-04T20:18:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/vallasturizmus\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:33:16","slug":"religious-tourism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/vallasturizmus\/","title":{"rendered":"The history and background of religious tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12 sc_layouts_column_icons_position_left\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"pg-vt\">\n<p class=\"pg-vt-lead\">For thousands of years people have set out on journeys because of their faith: to pray, to give thanks, to fulfil a vow, or simply to come closer to what they hold sacred. Religious tourism is one of the oldest forms of travel \u2013 and Sz\u00e9kely Land, where four historic churches live side by side, is an especially rich setting for it.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"pg-vt-tartalom\"><span class=\"pg-vt-tartalom-cim\">Contents<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"#mi-a-vallasturizmus\">What is religious tourism?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#tortenet\">Two thousand years of pilgrimage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#magyar-hagyomany\">The Hungarian pilgrimage tradition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#szekelyfold\">Sz\u00e9kely Land: four denominations, one landscape<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#ma\">Religious tourism today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#etikett\">How to visit a shrine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/nav>\n<h2 id=\"mi-a-vallasturizmus\">What is religious tourism?<\/h2>\n<p>Religious tourism covers journeys whose main purpose, or an important part of which, is a religious site, event or tradition. The boundaries are not sharp: tourism research describes the pilgrim and the tourist as the two ends of a scale, and most travellers are somewhere in between. A devout pilgrim also admires the Baroque altar, while a cultural traveller may be moved by the silence of a Mass.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-harom\">\n<div><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Pilgrimage<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">A spiritually motivated journey to a shrine, often on foot and in community, with prayer, a vow or thanksgiving.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Religious heritage tourism<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Visiting churches, monasteries, murals and church collections out of interest in architecture, art and history.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Church events<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Pilgrimage feasts, processions, festive Masses and church music festivals that draw thousands of people for a day.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"pg-vt-gomb-sor\"><a class=\"pg-ut-gomb pg-ut-gomb-vilagos\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/what-is-religious-tourism\/\">Read more: What is religious tourism?<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"tortenet\">Two thousand years of pilgrimage<\/h2>\n<p>Pilgrimage is as old as religion itself. The timeline shows the key milestones from the perspective of Christian Europe and the Carpathian Basin \u2013 all the way to Sz\u00e9kely Land.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"pg-vt-idovonal\">\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">Antiquity<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Sanctuaries and pilgrimage feasts<\/h3>\n<p>The ancient Greeks travelled from distant lands to the oracle of Delphi and the sanctuaries of Olympia. Jewish tradition called the faithful to the Temple in Jerusalem for three great pilgrimage feasts \u2013 Passover, Shavuot and Sukkot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">4th century<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Jerusalem and the beginnings of Christian pilgrimage<\/h3>\n<p>After Christianity could be freely practised under Emperor Constantine the Great, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre was built in Jerusalem and consecrated in 335. Egeria, a pilgrim woman from the West, travelled the Holy Land between 381 and 384; her account is one of the earliest surviving pilgrim narratives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">9th\u201312th century<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Santiago de Compostela<\/h3>\n<p>In the early 9th century the tomb of St James the Apostle was believed to have been found in Galicia, and Compostela became one of the most important pilgrimage destinations of medieval Europe. The 12th-century Codex Calixtinus even contained a guide for pilgrims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">around 1018<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>St Stephen opens the overland route<\/h3>\n<p>King St Stephen gave safe passage and help to pilgrims crossing Hungary, so the overland route through the Carpathian Basin became one of the main roads to the Holy Land. According to the chronicle of Rodulfus Glaber, an immense crowd of nobles and commoners set out for Jerusalem this way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">1300<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>The first Holy Year in Rome<\/h3>\n<p>Pope Boniface VIII proclaimed the first Jubilee Year in 1300, which drew crowds to Rome. Since then, Holy Years have been the high points of pilgrimage to Rome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">1442\u20131448<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3: church, friary, pilgrimage<\/h3>\n<p>With the support of John Hunyadi, the Franciscan church and friary of Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 were built, and in 1444 Pope Eugene IV granted the church an indulgence. Tradition links the Whitsun pilgrimage to the events of 1567; historians regard this as a legend, but the pilgrimage itself has been a living practice for centuries.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">1568<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Religious freedom at Torda<\/h3>\n<p>In January 1568 the Transylvanian Diet at Torda proclaimed freedom of preaching and of faith \u2013 among the first in the world. As a result, four received religions took shape in Transylvania: Catholic, Reformed, Lutheran and Unitarian. This diversity still defines the church map of Sz\u00e9kely Land today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">1950\u20131989<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Decades of prohibition<\/h3>\n<p>From 1950 the communist authorities effectively banned the traditional pilgrimage to Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3: outdoor processions were forbidden and pilgrims were kept under surveillance. The faithful still came, and from the late 1960s again in their thousands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">1987<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Europe rediscovers its pilgrim routes<\/h3>\n<p>In 1987 the Council of Europe launched its Cultural Routes programme with the Santiago de Compostela Declaration. The old routes came back to life: in 2025 more than 530,000 pilgrims received the Compostela certificate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">from 1990<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>Free once again<\/h3>\n<p>After the fall of communism the Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 pilgrimage could once again be held freely, and since then hundreds of thousands have come every Whitsun. Mary\u2019s Way was also born: a network of pilgrim paths some 1,400 kilometres long linking Mariazell with Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"pg-vt-allomas pg-vt-kiemelt\"><span class=\"pg-vt-ev\">2019\u20132020<\/span>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-allomas-tartalom\">\n<h3>A papal Mass and Hungaricum status<\/h3>\n<p>Pope Francis celebrated Mass at Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 on 1 June 2019. In 2020 the Whitsun pilgrimage of Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 was added to the collection of Hungarikums.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"pg-vt-jelmagyarazat\">Highlighted points relate to the Carpathian Basin and Sz\u00e9kely Land.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"magyar-hagyomany\">The Hungarian pilgrimage tradition<\/h2>\n<p>The Hungarian word b\u00facs\u00fa originally meant an indulgence: the grace the faithful could obtain by making a pilgrimage on a church\u2019s feast day. This is the origin of its present meaning: the feast of a church\u2019s patron saint, to which pilgrims come from far and wide.<\/p>\n<p>Pilgrims often walk for several days in parish groups, carrying a cross and banners, singing and praying. The great Marian shrines of the Carpathian Basin \u2013 M\u00e1riap\u00f3cs, M\u00e1travereb\u00e9ly-Szentk\u00fat, M\u00e1riaradna, Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 and, across the border, Mariazell \u2013 have been centres of the Hungarian Catholic tradition for centuries. The Protestant churches, too, have their own places of remembrance and feasts.<\/p>\n<p>In Sz\u00e9kely Land, besides the Whitsun pilgrimage of Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3, the July feast of the chapel on the shore of St Anne\u2019s Lake, the patronal feasts of the pilgrimage churches and the Corpus Christi processions are the largest community gatherings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"pg-vt-kep\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1734\" src=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-1024x704.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" alt=\"St Anne&#039;s Chapel in 1943, with Nagy-Coh\u00e1rd above the lake\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-370x255.jpg 370w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943-760x523.jpg 760w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/szent-anna-kapolna-1943.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>St Anne\u2019s Chapel in 1943 \u00b7 Photo: Fortepan \/ M\u00e1rton Kurutz, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"szekelyfold\">Sz\u00e9kely Land: four denominations, one landscape<\/h2>\n<p>In Sz\u00e9kely Land, Catholic, Reformed and Unitarian villages lie within a few kilometres of one another, and the Armenian merchants who settled here in the 17th century built their own Catholic churches. This diversity goes back to the path of the Reformation in Transylvania and to the religious freedom proclaimed at Torda.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-ket-kep\">\n<figure class=\"pg-vt-kep\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1786\" src=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-1024x770.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" alt=\"Ferenc D\u00e1vid proclaims religious freedom at the Diet of Torda in 1568 \u2013 painting by Alad\u00e1r K\u00f6r\u00f6sf\u0151i-Kriesch\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch-760x572.jpg 760w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/tordai-orszaggyules-1568-korosfoi-kriesch.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Alad\u00e1r K\u00f6r\u00f6sf\u0151i-Kriesch: The Diet of Torda, 1896 \u00b7 Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"pg-vt-kep\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1442\" src=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Murals of the St Ladislaus legend in St Emeric\u2019s Church, Gelence\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px-760x507.jpg 760w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Szent-Imre-RKT_VCV_MSA01676_2048px.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Murals of the St Ladislaus legend in St Emeric\u2019s Church, Gelence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>During the Ottoman and Tatar raids, village churches were surrounded with stone walls and bastions: this is how the fortified churches came about, where the villagers themselves took refuge in times of danger. The same story often recurs on medieval church walls: the legend of St Ladislaus, the knight-king\u2019s duel with the Cuman warrior who abducted a girl. In the 17th and 18th centuries painted coffered ceilings adorned church interiors \u2013 with flowers, stars and sometimes inscriptions in Old Hungarian runic script.<\/p>\n<p>The friaries also played a special role: the Franciscans of Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3, Mikh\u00e1za, Gyergy\u00f3sz\u00e1rhegy and Esztelnek kept the Catholic faith alive in the area through the centuries of the Reformation, running schools and libraries \u2013 and, at Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3, a printing press.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ma\">Religious tourism today<\/h2>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-szamok\">\n<div class=\"pg-vt-szam\"><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-ertek\">300\u2013330 million<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-szoveg\">visitors to the world\u2019s key religious sites every year (UN Tourism estimate)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-szam\"><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-ertek\">530 987<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-szoveg\">pilgrims received the Compostela certificate in 2025 \u2013 a new record<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-szam\"><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-ertek\">hundreds of thousands<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-szam-szoveg\">come to the Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 pilgrimage every Whitsun<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to UN Tourism estimates, there are some 600 million domestic and international religious trips in the world every year. Today\u2019s pilgrim often seeks silence, community, movement and heritage all at once: walking and cycling pilgrim routes, slow multi-day journeys and the discovery of smaller, lesser-known shrines are all popular.<\/p>\n<p>Digital tools help too: route planning with maps, an online pilgrim passport and an audio guide read aloud by your own device \u2013 all of these are available on Peregrinus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"pg-vt-kep\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1502\" src=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-1024x681.webp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" alt=\"Whitsun pilgrimage at Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3: crowds of pilgrims before the H\u00e1rmashalom altar\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-1024x681.webp 1024w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-768x511.webp 768w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-18x12.webp 18w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-370x246.webp 370w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54-760x506.webp 760w, https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/nn_csiksomlyoibucsu-17maj24-pnt-54.webp 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>The Whitsun pilgrimage at Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3, at the H\u00e1rmashalom altar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"etikett\">How to visit a shrine<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"pg-vt-etikett\">\n<li>In church, wear clothing that covers shoulders and knees; men should remove their hats.<\/li>\n<li>Do not walk around or take photos during Mass or a service \u2013 if a service is under way, wait until it ends.<\/li>\n<li>Many village churches are kept locked: it is worth arranging your visit with the parish office a day or two in advance.<\/li>\n<li>Traffic is heavy on pilgrimage days \u2013 set off early and, if possible, arrive by public transport or on foot.<\/li>\n<li>You can support the upkeep of the church with a donation; in many places they will gladly stamp or sign your pilgrim passport.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"pg-fo-kihagy\">More on Peregrinus<\/h2>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-tovabb\"><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/pilgrimage-routes\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Pilgrimage Routes<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Six pilgrimage routes by car, with maps, distances and tips<\/span><\/a><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/featured-sites\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Featured Sites<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Churches and shrines with photos and an audio guide<\/span><\/a><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/pilgrim-passport\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Pilgrim Passport<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Mark the places you have visited \u2013 online or on paper<\/span><\/a><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/events\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Events Calendar<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Pilgrimage feasts, processions and church holidays with dates<\/span><\/a><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/what-is-religious-tourism\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">What is religious tourism?<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">Pilgrim, tourist and everything in between<\/span><\/a><a class=\"pg-vt-kartya\" href=\"https:\/\/peregrinus.hu\/en\/pilgrimages-and-feasts-szekely-land\/\"><span class=\"pg-vt-k-cim\">Pilgrimage feasts and holidays in Sz\u00e9kely Land<\/span><span class=\"pg-vt-k-szoveg\">The calendar of a church year<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-vt-forrasok\">\n<h3>Sources<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/unwto.org\/archive\/europe\/press-release\/2014-12-10\/tourism-can-protect-and-promote-religious-heritage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN Tourism: Tourism can protect and promote religious heritage (2014)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/web\/cultural-routes\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council of Europe: Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe programme<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilgrimaps.com\/camino-de-santiago-a-new-peak-in-pilgrim-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pilgrimaps: Camino de Santiago \u2013 a new peak in pilgrim numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mki.gov.hu\/assets\/pdf\/kiralyokesszentek\/MKI_kiralyok_es_szentek_B5_017.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magyars\u00e1gkutat\u00f3 Int\u00e9zet: Kir\u00e1lyok \u00e9s szentek<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/posta.hu\/stamps\/stamps\/new-stamps\/the-diet-of-torda-was-held-450-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magyar Posta: The Diet of Torda was held 450 years ago (2018)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/telex.hu\/transtelex\/2026\/05\/23\/csiksomlyoi-bucsu-20-szazad-tortenet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Transtelex: K\u00e9t vil\u00e1gh\u00e1bor\u00fa, tilt\u00e1sok \u00e9s \u00fajrakezd\u00e9sek \u2013 a 20. sz\u00e1zadi Cs\u00edksomly\u00f3 (2026)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/infostart.hu\/eletmod\/2020\/05\/24\/a-csiksomlyoi-bucsu-es-a-magyar-szablyavivas-is-bekerult-a-hungarikumok-gyujtemenyebe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Infostart: A cs\u00edksomly\u00f3i b\u00facs\u00fa beker\u00fclt a hungarikumok gy\u0171jtem\u00e9ny\u00e9be (2020)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mariaut.hu\/dokumentum\/31677\/Mria_t_sajtanyag_2019_februr.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">M\u00e1ria \u00dat: sajt\u00f3anyag (2019)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Az emberek \u00e9vezredek \u00f3ta \u00fatra kelnek a hit\u00fck miatt: im\u00e1dkozni, h\u00e1l\u00e1t adni, fogadalmat teljes\u00edteni, vagy egyszer\u0171en k\u00f6zelebb ker\u00fclni ahhoz, ami sz\u00e1mukra szent. 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