St. Anthony of Padua Chapel
St. Anthony of Padua Chapel
Address:
Csíksomlyó, Kissomlyó-hegy
Historical Hungarian county:
Csík
GPS coordinates:
46.3760609944, 25.8305773145
History
One of the three chapels on the Kissomlyó Hill. It was built between 1750 and 1773 at the expense of Haller Krisztina of Hallerkő on the site of an earlier 17th century chapel in Baroque style. Its altarpiece depicts Saint Anthony of Padua.
The history of the former small chapel dates back to the Turkish-Tatar raids of 1661. During the cruel massacre on St. Ursula's Day, 21 October, the pagans looted the church and burnt the monastery. Of the twelve monks, the Tartars killed four, took four away, and only four escaped. According to Leonard Losteiner, a former historian of the order, the Franciscan friar Márk Jakab from Hosszúaszó fled from the danger to the blackthorn bushes on the southern side of Mount Kissomlyó and hid there to watch the destruction of the church and monastery. In the agony of mortal fear, he appealed to St. Anthony for help, and promised St. Anthony that if he escape from the danger, he would build a chapel with his own hands on the spot where he was hiding. Keeping his vow, in 1673, he built the former chapel of St. Anthony. In contrast, the inscription on the brick found when the chapel was rebuilt in 1775 reads "Johannes Mark Ao. 1673.", which indicates that the builder's name was Márk János and not Márk Jakab.
After the students of the Roman Catholic Grammar School of Csíksomlyó became aware of the miraculous story of the chapel's origins, they began to consider the place particularly sacred. From 1720 onwards, they chose Saint Anthony of Padua as their patron saint. The veneration of St. Anthony of Padua began to spread among the population and more and more people made pilgrimages to the chapel for the devotions of the nine Tuesdays. This consisted of nine consecutive masses on Tuesdays before the feast of St. Anthony. Between 1749 and 1750, a new sanctuary was built for the old chapel.
Countess Haller Karolina of Hallerkő, the wife of Count Gyulai Ferenc, cavalry general, was much grieved by the loss of her only daughter and worried about the illness of her son, while she was also tormented by earaches. Once, waking from a deep sleep, a Franciscan appeared before him and said the following:
"if you want to save your son from death and rid yourself of the earache, see to the repair of the chapel in Transylvania where nine days devotions are held."
The unexpected recovery of her son convinced the Countess of the reality of the vision. She learned about the nine days devotions at the Chapel of St. Anthony in Csíksomlyó from the Franciscan Father Péterffi Kornél and in gratitude offered 600 forints for the construction. Father Tóth Sebestyén, the chapel's caretaker, used the money to enlarge the chapel and build the nave. In the course of this work, between 1773 and 1775, the chapel took its present form. In 1776, it was consecrated by Bőröd István, Archdeacon of the district of Felcsík, Canon of Gyulafehervár. The statue of Saint Anthony was carved in 1942.
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