Published: 2025-06-20

Dominican Nuns’ Monastery on Rabbit Island in Buda (1252–1637) as an Example of the Monarch’s Paternal Foundation (2)

Piotr Stefaniak
Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego
Section: Articles
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5922

Abstract

The text presented here is a continuation of an article published in the previous issue of the journal. The Dominican nunnery complex in Buda, built in the mid-13th century and extended in the following century, appeared to be an outstanding example of Hungarian Gothic architecture of French provenance. The success of the foundation was thwarted by the Turkish invasion of Hungary in the 16th century. In 1541, 18 nuns fled from Rabbit Island to Oradea (Great Varadin). They lived there until 1546, when they had to leave due to the Reformation.
They went to Trnava, where in 1567 they received the monastery of St. John the Baptist. From there, in 1618, they moved to the Poor Clares monastery in Pozsony (Bratislava). There, in 1637, the last Dominican nun, Barbara Verebély, died, closing the history of the most famous
Hungarian monastery.

Keywords:

St. Margareth of Hungary, dominican nuns, Béla IV, Rabbit (Margaret) Island, Buda(pest)

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Stefaniak, P. (2025). Dominican Nuns’ Monastery on Rabbit Island in Buda (1252–1637) as an Example of the Monarch’s Paternal Foundation (2). Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego, 45(1), 137–158. https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5922

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