Abstract
The study deals with patronages, i.e. with titles or dedications of Catholic sacred buildings (or objects). In the study the author comes with his own typology of patronages that reflects the naming structure of individual church titles. The typology is based on the following differences: single name and multiple name patronages (St. Jacob vs. St. Jacob and Philip); naming of the building after a person / an event / a symbol (St. Jacob vs. Resurrection of the Lord vs. Holy Cross); direct vs. indirect naming of a person (St. Jacob vs. The Holy Family); overall vs. partial naming of a person (Jesus Christ the King vs. God’s Body); necessary vs. unnecessary attribute (St. John the Baptist vs. St. Wenceslas); attributes differentiating more persons vs. more attributes of a single person (St. John the Baptist / of Nepomuk vs. Virgin Mary the Queen / the Christians’ Helper); toponymic attribute vs. other attribute (Virgin Mary of Carmel vs. Virgin Mary of the Snows). The author studies patronages used in the Czech language and referring to objects in the Czech Republic. He also describes certain developmental tendencies in the choice of patronages: the higher numbers of Christological patronages in the era of Mary Therese and Josef II, the reflection of newly introduced cults and events of Church-wide importance (liturgical reverence to the Heart of Jesus after 1856, the apparition of the Virgin Mary in Lourdes in 1858) and current accents in contemporary Catholicism (the patronages of The Holy Family, The Mercy of God, and The Virgin Mary, the Mother of Christians’ Unity).
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