Title: Use of Psalms in The Roman Catholic Folk Religion (19<sup>th</sup>–20<sup>th</sup> Century, Hungary)
Abstract: For a long while in Roman Catholic communities the psalms were used in Latin by the clergy and monks. They were little used in Catholic folk religion in the vernacular. Catholic translations of the psalms were rare in the 17th to 19th centuries, and the few that existed were mainly reworkings in verse of Protestant texts. Halotti és Soltári énekek (Requiems and Psalms) by István Illyés was a popular publication in the period, reissued numerous times. The customof "zsoltárolás" (psalm singing) practised at vigils for the dead in Csépa, a settlement on the Great Plain may have been partly based on that collection. The hymns sung on such occasions were collected in manuscript song books in the 19th century. The paper examines this custom that died out by the mid-20th century as well as the manuscript song books.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-18
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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