Franciscan Church (Câmpulung)

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The Bărăția ("Brethren Church", from Hungarian barát , "brother, monk"), with the patronage of St. James , is the oldest surviving Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Bucharest . The medieval church, which dates back to Transylvanian-Saxon colonists, is located in the small town of Câmpulung .

history

Until 1822, when city autonomy was abolished, the citizens gathered in St. James' Church elected their mayor on the third Sunday after Easter.

literature

  • Hans Petri, On the origin of the city of Cimpulung in Romania , in: Südostdeutsches Archiv 14 (1971), 46–56
  • Raymund Netzhammer : About religious conditions in Romania , Salzburg 1902

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Churches called Bărăția are also in Bucharest , see Bărăția (Bucharest) .
  2. ↑ Lajos Kakucs, The medieval cult of Jacob in Hungary, in: Klaus Herbers , Dieter Bauer (ed.), The cult of Jacob in East Central Europe, Tübingen 2003, 328.