“There are, there really are people who have seen...” The emergence of a place of Marian pilgrimage in Radamos, a Hungarian village in Slovenia

Mód, László and Simon, András (2014) “There are, there really are people who have seen...” The emergence of a place of Marian pilgrimage in Radamos, a Hungarian village in Slovenia. Acta Ethnographica Hungarica, 59 (2). pp. 325-336. ISSN 1216-9803

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Abstract

Radamos (Radmožanci) is a village with a population of 254, inhabited by Hungarians of Roman Catholic religion, in the territory of present-day Slovenia bordering on Hungary. József Füle, a local inhabitant, experienced the apparition of Mary alone on June 15, 1947. The news spread immediately and in the summer of 1947 great numbers of people from the surrounding Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian villages came regularly to visit the tree, and the Virgin Mary appeared to many of them, including a large number of children. The communist authorities of Yugoslavia at that time took a dim view of spontaneously organised pilgrimages with religious content: they imprisoned a number of people. The principal goal of the article, in addition to presenting the events of 1947, is to analyse the process whereby the apparitions live on in individual and collective memory, and the forms of manifestation found today, more than half a century after the apparitions. The authors also wish to interpret the process in which the pilgrimage site was transformed from the mid-1990s.

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