Presentation of handwritten sermons from Prekmurje from the first half of the 20th century

Abstract

V prispevku so predstavljene pred nekaj leti odkrite prekmurske rokopisne pridige, ki so bile najdene v Martjancih pri sorodnici pokojnega župnika Andreja Berdena. Gre za katoliške pridige, pisane za nedelje in praznike. Vseh skupaj je več kot petsto; pisali so jih različni avtorji. Nastajale so na prelomu iz 19. v 20. stoletje, okvirno do 30. let 20. stoletja, po različnih prekmurskih župnijah – največ jih je iz črenšovske in martjanske. Pridige dopolnjujejo zgodbo o razvoju prekmurskega jezika v Katoliški cerkvi, njihova najdba pa potrjuje, da si cerkvena književnost v Prekmurju zasluži nadaljnje raziskovanje.

The article presents the handwritten sermons of Prekmurje, which were found a few years ago in the Parish of Martjanci at the relative of the deceased parish priest Andrej Berden. These are Catholic sermons written for Sundays and religious holidays. There are more than five hundred in all; they were written by different authors from the turn of the 20th century to approximately the 1930s in various parishes of Prekmurje – most of them from the Parish of Črenšovci and Parish of Martjanci. The sermons complement the story of the development of the Prekmurje language in the Catholic Church, and their finding confirms that the church literature in Prekmurje deserves further research.