Von Spursteinen und Ivo-Kapellen. Heilige Helfer Wider Ungerechte Gerichts-Händel und Ihre Zeugnisse Besonders in Österreich

Schempf, Herbert (2011) Von Spursteinen und Ivo-Kapellen. Heilige Helfer Wider Ungerechte Gerichts-Händel und Ihre Zeugnisse Besonders in Österreich. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 56 (1). pp. 163-174. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

Sign stones and Ivo chapels. Helping saints against unlawful court procedures and their traces in Austria. It is a basic existential behaviour that in seemingly hopeless life situations people turn to the means of faith, to persons who have been proclaimed saints or blessed. The article presents rarely mentioned saints to whom people turn in trouble, and their cult in Austria. Saints who helped in hopeless litigation, intervening in cases of debt settlement, providing evidence in inheritance proceedings involving property bequeathed to the church, and in legal disputes of the poor. However, the legends of the saints concerned and the motifs found in them often point beyond the difficult situations of individuals; propaganda for the church’s demand for property, justice and defence of the poor also appears in them.

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