Original scientific paper
About Ludbreg and the Batthyány Family with Special Reference to the Attitude towards the Relic of the Holy Blood of Christ (Cca 1696-1817)
Hrvoje Petrić
; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article presents the relationship between the Batthyány family and Ludbreg with special reference to the relationship with the relic of the Holy Blood of Christ. The beginning of the chronological framework of the article is presumed to be 1696, when the chapel in the Ludbreg castle where the relic of the Holy Blood of Christ was kept was first mentioned and which was most probably built during the Erdődy family. The relic was kept there temporarily, in order to protect it from possible Ottoman invasions. At the end of the 17th century, the Batthyány family took over the Ludbreg manor and the relic of the Holy Blood of Christ in the castle chapel. Selected information on the attitude of the Batthyány family towards the relic of the Holy Blood of Christ in Ludbreg was presented. The author points to propaganda patterns of behavior by the Batthyány family, visible through the attempt to adapt the interpretation of the past to their own needs and through various forms of propaganda, for example, by depicting past events related to the miraculous transformation of the Holy Blood of Christ shown in their own interpretation on the frescoes from 1753-1754 in the renovated Ludbreg castle. A possible motive was to keep the relic in the castle permanently. By order of the ruler Joseph II, the relic of the Holy Blood of Christ was transferred from the chapel in the Ludbreg castle to the parish church in Ludbreg in 1787. After that, it was taken to Hungary in an undefined year and returned to the parish church in Ludbreg by the decision of the Ludbreg nobleman from the Batthyány family in 1815 at the earliest, and in 1817 at the latest, where it is permanently kept.
Keywords
Ludbreg; Batthyány family; relic; religious history; 18th century
Hrčak ID:
280500
URI
Publication date:
30.5.2022.
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