Egy tanúságtevő hitvalló, szolgáló, tudományos és papi pálya lezárult
  • Metaadatok
Tartalom: http://real.mtak.hu/66163/
Archvum: MTA Knyvtr
Gyjtemny: Status = Published


Type = Article
Cm:
Egy tanúságtevő hitvalló, szolgáló, tudományos és papi pálya lezárult
Ltrehoz:
Földvári, Sándor
Kiad:
Juhász Gyula Tanárképző Főiskola (JGYTF)
Dtum:
2014
Tma:
BX Christian Denominations / keresztény felekezetek
GT Manners and customs / néprajz, szokások, hagyományok
Tartalmi lers:
Passed a Wittness of the Faith, Scientist, a Servant of The
Lord, True Priest: Nicefor Petrashevich (1915–2013), canon of
the Preshov Greek Catholic Eparchy.
Abstract
Decease of the witness of the Faith, a servant of the Lord
and a famous researcher of the religious folklore: Nicefor
Joseph Petrashevich (1915–2013) distinguished member of the
Capitol of Preshov Greek Catholic Eparchy. Born in Čukalovce,
East-Slovakia (then Csukalóc, Upper-Hungary) in 1915 as the
sixth of the eleven children in the family of a Greek
Catholic bishop, he was inspired by his father and elder
brother who served the Lord. He studied in the high school
(gymnasium) of the Cistercian Order in Eger (Northern
Hungary) which provided its pupils with knowledge and deep
faith. He became a choir-minister of the Uzghorod Bishopric
Basilica where he turned to the examination of folklore
traditions reflected in the liturgical chants. Apparently, it
was his calling and his findings on the Byzantine chants
contributed significantly to the understanding of religious
folklore. He was known as a gift ed composer and singer, too.
The Greek Catholic Church was banned in the Soviet Union
which obtained Subcarpathia after the World War II, and this
church was oppressed in Slovakia as well, so he faced a
dilemma: to convert to the Ortodox (Pravoslav) Christianity
and live free, or to remain faithful to the Catholic Church
and be persecuted. Moreover, he was a coelebs, a priest who
did not have a wife (despite the fact that Greek Catholic
priests are allowed to have families). Consequently, he could
have been elected as bishop, as the higher ranks in the
Byzantine Churches are open for monks. The communist
authorities offered Father Nicefor the episcopate of the
Slovak Ortodox Church, if he converted to the Ortodoxy. He
refused it: “my head does not accept the mithra (bishops’
crone) by leaving my Catholic faith” –he said. As a result,
he was imprisoned for more than two years in Slovakia. Later
he came to Hungary where could not serve as a parochial
priest, but worked as cantor or helping pope in various
places and in centres of pilgrimage where performed the
liturgy in Church Slavonic which he sang excellently.
Continuing his researches in the folk sings in the liturgy
and the local traditions of the liturgical chants, he gained
a small grant of the Soros Foundation in 1986 and delivered
lectures for two semesters at the Department of the Folklore
at the Eötvös University in Budapest in 1988–89. His papers
have been partially published, but most of them are still
preserved as manuscripts in the Institute of Musicology at
the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, or even in unknown places
worldwide, as he sent his works to his brothers-in-faith to
the United States. In his eighties, instead of enjoying the
golden days of ageing, he moved to Slovakia in order to serve
as a pastor who spoke both Slovakian and Hungarian as mother
tongues. He was buried in Szikszó, Hungary where the Greek
Catholic Bishop of Preshov and approximately forty popes from
Ukraine, Hungary and Slovakia commemorated him on 20 July
2013. Church historians and folklorists honored his memory as
a researcher with a conference on 4 October 2013 in Szikszó.
Proceedings are to be published next year. A memorial website
about him is open for bloggers.
Nyelv:
angol
Tpus:
Article
PeerReviewed
Formtum:
text
Azonost:
Földvári, Sándor (2014) Egy tanúságtevő hitvalló, szolgáló, tudományos és papi pálya lezárult. BELVEDERE MERIDIONALE, 26 (1). pp. 118-123. ISSN 1419-0222
Kapcsolat:
MTMT:2571808; doi:10.14232/belv.2014.1.12