HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 : BLACK MADONNA and THE PAULINES HOLY ORDER : GENEALOGY PRO TIP #7

HUNGARIAN URBARIUM 1767 : BLACK MADONNA and THE PAULINES HOLY ORDER Genealogy Pro Tip #7

There are several thousand locations in Europe where the BLACK MADONNA icon is enshrined as a focus for prayer. The Shrine of the Black Madonna in Czestochowa, Poland is the most famous, that also being a place of pilgrimage. Some people believe this original painting was painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist himself. Some people believe that the darkness of the skin of Jesus and his mother, Mary, was intentionally painted dark to indicate they were of African origin, others that the pigments darkened with time especially with all that exposure to incense and candle smoke! Copies have been made for hundreds of years featuring dark skin color.

Why, you might ask, am I posting about the BLACK MADONNA here at Magyar American BlogSpot and the Hungarian Urbarium (census) of 1767? 

In the census you're going to find a number of religious oriented places that have been counted for their land holdings and buildings and you're going to see the word meaning PAULINE.  It turns out that there has been and is more than one HOLY ORDER based on Saint Paul, so I want you to know that when you see Pauline on the Urbarium it indicates the ORDER OF SAINT PAUL THE HERMIT, which was founded by Blessed Eusebius of Esztergrom, Hungary in 1215 - the Medieval period. 

According to some sources, at one time there were over 5000 monks belonging to this order just in Hungary. The Order spread to Germany, Poland, Austria and Bohemia (Czechoslovakia), and Croatia.  Estimated to be down to 500 members, the Mother House of the Order is now in Czestochowa where the icon thought to be original is cared for by them.

image from WikiCommons

If you're researching in Szegred County, Hungary, you may find that the center for this worship is at Saint Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church, as Serbians began to immigrate there in the 1500's after bloodshed in that hotbed called Kosovo.  If you see a surname ending in IC, that is likely a Serbian surname.

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