Szent Magdolna-templom
In Szent Magdolna-templom’s place, a medieval church once stood over the former cemetery of Egregy, a village that lay north of the town center—about a half-hour walk away on a hillside. This Romanesque building was known locally as the Egregyi Árpád-kori templom, with a west tower topped by a stone, conical roof. Inside its celebrated triumphal arch, decorative “fonatos” painted ornament survived as a key feature of its earlier design. The church’s existence reaches written history by 1341, when a document already mentioned its original patron: Saint Catherine of Alexandria. After damage from the Turkish era, the structure was substantially renovated and redecorated in 1731, and the surrounding grounds functioned as a burial area—so much so that the church became used as a cemetery chapel. In that later period, the protective figure changed to Saint Mary Magdalene. …
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