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Szent Mihály kolostor romja
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Szent Mihály kolostor romja

🏗 1480-01-01🏛 historic monument of Hungary

Szent Mihály kolostor romja is a pálos monastery ruin tied to Hungary’s late–15th-century frontier society and the memory of Kinizsi Pál. In 1478, Pál Kinizsi brought the pálos order to Vázsony, a town elevated to a *mezőváros*, and the Szent Mihály monastery was founded between 1480 and 1483 in the Bakony’s “quiet land,” west of Vázsony Castle. Tradition says it was built from the ransom paid for one of Kinizsi’s Turkish captives, and the founders intended it as their family burial place—one story holds that an endowment could support 26 people. Kinizsi was actually buried here in late 1494, and his grave was later uncovered, with his tombstones visible in the castle chapel. …

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