letter of foundation of Veszprémvölgy, Ilona legend

Veszprémvölgy - Deed of gift
Veszprémvölgy - Nunnery
The letter of foundation of the Veszprémvölgy monastery

St Stephen's only Greek charter, which was preserved in king Coloman's 1109 Greek copy and Latin renewal. In the charter the king presented possessions to the dwellers of the Greek nunnery, which he founded himself. The text contains the earliest Hungarian sporadic memories in the form of the enlisted place names.

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The Ilona legend

Ilona was the saint nun of the St Catherine nunnery, who received the gift of bearing Christ's stigmas. She foresaw the Tartar invasion and presumably died in 1241. After her death miracles occurred at her tomb. Only the legend tells about her life, which was sent to the Venetian head of province, who investigated St Catherine of Siena's stigmas by Gregorius, Dominican head of province in 1409. The legend of Ilona from Veszprém was presumably made in two volumes, and in the first half of the 1270s the two parts were united. In spite of its late appearance the data in it authenticate its Árpád-age origin. Its linguistic and structural requirements are simpler than those of the Margaret legend. The text gives a boring description of the miracles happening in Ilona's life and after her death at her tomb.

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