The article deals with the phenomenon of pious donations to the Church during the Middle Ages. The main portion of the text analyses and attempts to classify pious gifts donated by Bohemian nobility in the 1st half of the 14th century. The purpose was to describe the social and religious purpose of donations. For the sake of better comparison in a broker scope, donations of the nobility from Upper Austria between 1310–1320 were assessed in the same way and were compared with the environment of the Bohemian lands.
The goal of the paper is to present in a brief digest of the basic points of Masaryk's concept of religion and above all to point at his relationship to Christianity. The text presents the most significant life, social, philosophical and religious influences upon Masaryk's thought and it gives notice to some less stressed connections that formed his attitude to the Christian faith. One part of the paper is also a sufficient mapping of opinions and critical assessments of other authors of his time as well as contemporary ones that gave heed to Masaryk's theory of religion.
The remodelling and decoration of the provost St. Hypolyte Church in Hradiště/Poltenberg near Znojmo marks the final phase of the Baroque era building activities of the Knights of the Cross with the Red Star in Moravia. This unique artistic complex is dominated by a monumental wall painting by noted artist Franz Anton Maulbertsch and his collaborators (1776) depicting 'The Finding of the Holy Cross', an important iconographic theme in Austrian baroque piety (Fiducia in crucem Christi).
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