!!!Patrozinium

Patronage, refers to saints (patron saints) to whose protection and 
intercession a person, a society, a church. or a place is dedicated; 
in the Catholic Church, patronage of a saint over a church dedicated 
to him or her is also referred to as titularity. In the early Middle 
Ages such titularity was often connected with the presence of such a 
saint's relics; the patronage of a certain saint over a church can 
also permit conclusions as to the legal entity or individual that had 
legal title to the church at the time it was founded 
(St. Martin's churches point to the Carolingians, 
St. Stephen's churches to the dependence on the Diocese of Passau 
etc.). Church patronages are commemorated in ecclesiastic and secular 
festivities (Kirtag, Kirchtag - "village fair") which were frequently 
the origin of country fairs and fun-fairs.

!Literature
F. Zarl, Die Besiedlung und Christianisierung des Viertels 
ob dem Wienerwald im Lichte der Volkskunde. Patrozinienforschung und 
Ortsnamenkunde, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1963.


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