In the Trnavian county, somewhere in the middle of deep forests, where only wild animals and dangerous bandits used to live in those days, a modest young man lived here too. It was hermit (J\u00e1n) John. People knew about him that he had been a son of wealthy Apponyi\u2019s family, noblemen of Jablonica.
\nBut J\u00e1n preferred to spend his life abnegating and praying because of his desire to seek God\u2019s peace in beautiful nature and innocent mind, in simple food and fresh water. And St. Catherine occasionally apparited to him in moments of his contemplation.
\nVery early inhabitants of the surroundings got to know about it and soon more and more pilgrims – elder, young, healthy, sick, wealthy and poor – came here. The site became famous and celebrated and a beautiful wooden chapel was built up here with the statue of St. Catherine of Alexandria who held opened book with the latin inscription:<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the statue is situated elsewhere nowadays. In the Trnavian county, somewhere in the middle of deep forests, where only wild animals and dangerous bandits used to live in those days, a modest young man lived here too. It was hermit (J\u00e1n) John. People knew about him that he had been a son of wealthy Apponyi\u2019s family, noblemen of Jablonica. But J\u00e1n Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":63,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2122","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2122\/revisions\/5170"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katarinka.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt is not strange that monks of order of Franciscans, Friars Minor came here, to the holy place, and they built up the monastery that was established by count Christopher Erd\u00f6dy on 21st December MDCXVIII.
\nThe monks stayed here in difficult conditions. They were attacked in times of insecurity. In MDCVL, an armed rebellion of the Hungarian nobility – Juraj R\u00e1koci I. or in MDCLXIII, the Turkish armies plundered the monastery. The soldiers of emperor`s army killed the noblemen, who were seeking refuge from persecution at St. Catherine`s Monastery. Leopold I, the emperor, punished them and he compensated the monastery by gift of 450 ducats. I preto kl\u00e1\u0161tor opravovan\u00fd a zv\u00e4\u010d\u0161ovan\u00fd gr\u00f3fom Gabrielom Erd\u00f6dim i jeho man\u017eelkou Juditou Amade bol. Mn\u00edsi z milodarov, almu\u017eny i pr\u00e1ce vlastnej v sadoch svojich i z rybn\u00edka \u017eili i pastor\u00e1cii v okolit\u00fdch dedin\u00e1ch sa venovali. Mnohorak\u00e9 i mnohotis\u00edcov\u00e9 z\u00e1stupy sem na Bielu nede\u013eu, Svatodu\u0161n\u00fd pondelok \u010di svat\u00fa Katarinu po dlh\u00e9 desa\u0165ro\u010dia putovali i jedn\u00e9ho d\u0148a boli svedkami pr\u00edhody tejto:
\nP\u00fate tieto pos\u00e1dky vojensk\u00e9 okolit\u00e9 ako lapa\u010dky vyu\u017e\u00edvali. Roku p\u00e1na MDCXCVII Stolica bratislavsk\u00e1 list mn\u00edchov svatokatarinsk\u00fdch kvadri\u00e1nom Benignusom Smrtn\u00edkom<\/a> podp\u00edsan\u00fd prerok\u00favala. V liste st\u00e1lo: “… P\u00edsmom t\u00fdmto na\u0161\u00edm na n\u00e1silie vojakov nemeck\u00fdch za p\u00fate na Bielu nede\u013eu v kl\u00e1\u0161tore svatej Katar\u00edny sa \u017ealova\u0165 r\u00e1\u010dime. Vojaci jun\u00e1kov lapa\u0165 chceli, v\u0161ak \u013eud do kostola ich zatla\u010dil, kde vojakovi jedn\u00e9mu zl\u00e9mu sa prihodilo, \u017ee ho zabili. Keby gr\u00f3f urodzen\u00fd Juraj Erd\u00f6di s \u013eu\u010fmi svojimi zasiahnu\u0165 nebol r\u00e1\u010dil, boli by v\u0161etci vojaci lichten\u0161tajnsk\u00ed o \u017eivot pri\u0161li. Pod\u013ea pr\u00e1va cirkevn\u00e9ho kostol vra\u017edou po\u0161kvrnen\u00fd bol, preto pr\u00edpad tento r\u00e1\u010dime ctenej Stolici bratislavskej na rie\u0161enie predlo\u017ei\u0165 i o znovuvysvatenie chr\u00e1mu n\u00e1\u0161ho \u017eiada\u0165 …” .
\nNo nielen \u010dasy vojensk\u00e9 ale i pokojn\u00e9 prekvapi\u0165 m\u00f4\u017eu. Tak sa i stalo \u017ee cis\u00e1r vraj osvieten\u00fd Jozef II. pr\u00edkazy tak\u00e9 j\u00fala dvaadvadsiateho roku p\u00e1na MDCCLXXXVI vydal, ktor\u00e9 za n\u00e1sledok zru\u0161enie kl\u00e1\u0161tora n\u00e1\u0161ho spom\u00ednan\u00e9ho mali. Mn\u00edsi \u00faboh\u00ed ratova\u0165 sa museli aj skromn\u00e9 majetky svoje porozd\u00e1va\u0165 n\u00faten\u00ed boli, ostatky z hrobiek , kni\u017enica i invent\u00e1r, \u017eia\u013e, odnesen\u00e9 boli. Chv\u00ed\u013eu e\u0161te v kl\u00e1\u0161tore pr\u00e1zdnom invalidi vojensk\u00ed pob\u00fdvali, no potom u\u017e jedin\u00fdm obyvate\u013eom sa vlci, l\u00ed\u0161ky, sokoli, medvede, svine div\u00e9, ja\u0161terice, poklady, zmije tieto poklady str\u00e1\u017eiace… stali. A kl\u00e1\u0161tor tento pustn\u00fa\u0165 po\u010dal…
\nAv\u0161ak mn\u00edsi niektor\u00ed, d\u00fafaj\u00faci a viery pln\u00ed hlavy str\u00e1ca\u0165 neza\u010dali i tajn\u00e9 pl\u00e1ny nov\u00e9 o kl\u00e1\u0161tora znovuzroden\u00ed spriadali. V pl\u00e1noch t\u00fdchto o novom r\u00e1de Katar\u00ednkov sa hovor\u00ed, ktor\u00e9ho \u00faloha n\u00e1ro\u010dn\u00e1 a \u0165a\u017ek\u00e1 preve\u013emi jest, toti\u017eto \u017eivot na miestach t\u00fdchto pren\u00e1dhern\u00fdch obnovi\u0165. Svoje my\u0161lienky pokoleniam \u010fal\u0161\u00edm pred\u00e1vali a tie a\u017e ku n\u00e1m sa dostali. S ich d\u00f4verou v na\u0161e ruky vlo\u017eenou a z \u00facty k nim r\u00e1d tento v \u010dasoch ned\u00e1vnych sme sa zalo\u017ei\u0165 prihotovali. \u00daloha \u010fal\u0161ia pre\u0165a\u017ek\u00e1 n\u00e1m pridelen\u00e1 bola – rady r\u00e1du n\u00e1\u0161ho novicmi z \u013eudu pospolit\u00e9ho roz\u0161irova\u0165. Ka\u017ed\u00fd \u010dlenom m\u00f4\u017ee sta\u0165 sa, len aby v\u00f4\u013eu dobr\u00fa mal, ochotn\u00fd \u017ei\u0165 jak J\u00e1n Apponi v \u010distote srdca i du\u0161e bol, splnil p\u00edsmom svojim zaznamenan\u00fdch \u00faloh dvaadvadsa\u0165 i prihotovan\u00fd bol \u00falohy stanoven\u00e9 \u010fal\u0161ie splni\u0165, o ktor\u00fdch on prezvie sa v prav\u00fd \u010das.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"