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[161] [170] As the feast of Saint Joachim was moved, in 1969, from 16 August, [185] the day immediately following the day of Stephen's death, Stephen's feast was moved to that date. [186] Stephen is venerated as the patron saint of Hungary, [ 170 ] and regarded as the protector of kings, masons, stonecutters, stonemasons and bricklayers, [ 187 ...
Saint Stephen's Day, also called the Feast of Saint Stephen, is a Christian saint's day to commemorate Saint Stephen, the first Christian martyr or protomartyr, celebrated on 26 December in Western Christianity and 27 December in Eastern Christianity.
The feast of St Stephen is celebrated on 20 August. Hungarian pilgrims frequently visit the chapel. Hungarian experts took part in the ongoing restoration and archeological exploration of the church during the 20th century together with German and Italian colleagues.
Commemoration of Hungary's first king St. Stephen, also the day of the foundation of Hungary and "the day of the new bread". St. Stephen (Szent István király, ca. 975 – 15 August 1038), as the first king of Hungary, led the country into the Christian church and established the institutions of the kingdom and the church. He was canonized on ...
His feast day in Hungary is August 20. Canonized by Pope Gregory VII in 1083 along with his son Imre (who preceded him in death in 1031, after a hunting accident) and Bishop Gerhard of Hungary , St. Stephen is the patron saint of "Hungary, kings, the death of children, masons, stonecutters, and bricklayers."
The first page of the earliest version of the Legenda Hartviciana preserved in a 12th-century codex kept in Frankfurt until 1814. The Legenda Hartviciana or Vita Hartviciana, also anglicized as the Life of King Stephen of Hungary by Hartvic (Hungarian: Hartvik-féle Szent István-legenda), is the official hagiography of St. Stephen, the first King of Hungary.
The mausoleum was a focal point of the 1938 celebration of the 900th anniversary of St. Stephen's death. A series of events that year culminated on August 18 with a special session of both houses of the Hungarian Parliament that made August 20, the day of the deceased king's canonization in 1083, into a national holiday . The event was ...
The foundation charter of Pannonhalma Abbey, signed by King St Stephen. Géza died in 997, leaving Hungary to his son, Stephen (r. 997–1038). Born into paganism as Vajk, Stephen was baptised at the latest before he married, on his father's initiative, Gisela of Bavaria (d. 1065), a relative of the Holy Roman Emperor Otto III (r. 996–1002).