Almost all localities, be it towns or villages, have different legends in their history, usually with some truth in the middle.
These were also taken over by historians, sometimes at the risk of ignoring well-known facts that could not be mixed with the legends perpetuated by the oral tradition.
For example, in Maria Square where the terrible martyrdom of Gheorghe Doja and his surviving captains. In Maria Square the heads of the revolt were slaughtered in terrible torments unheard of until then, as eyewitnesses tell.
Gheorghe Doja was put on a throne of hot iron as a king. The other captains were plucked off their nails, then severed each finger away. They were beaten with hot iron.
According to the perpetuated legend to this day, the present Christians were forced to witness that terrible sight. The Jesuit monks brought to the place, religious hymns. During their singing they saw the gentle face of the Holy Virgin Mary descending from the air to the place of martyrdom and the Jesuit monks shuddered to the middle of their hearts.
Therefore, on that place they would have placed a wooden icon of the Holy Virgin in a box, making it a place of pilgrimage.
In 1865, the icon was replaced with a stone and the current chapel, where the statue of the Virgin Mary is carved in marble, was erected in 1906 in the square that bears its name.
The legend in this form, was also taken over by city historians, but it can only be accepted as long as the Jesuit monks are spoken for the legend is now confused with well-known historical data. The foundations of the Jesuit monks order were only put in 1534, 20 years after the Doja uprising. The life of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the order, is too well known to be mixed with this legend.
The peasant revolt led by Gheorghe Doja was taking place in Transilvania, during 3 months from 9 of April until 15 of July in the year of 1514. But it really ended with the execution of Gh. Doja and his captains: Grigore Doja and Laurentiu Meszaros.
István Báthory, János Szapolyai sau János Zápolya (in Romanian language Ioan Zapolya), János Bornemisza were the kingdom’s landed nobility who was following the Gh. Doja in order to capture him and to quell the peasant’s revolt.
An army of 20.000 warriors led by János Zápolya and István Báthory, capture Gh. Doja while he and his peasant army where trying to enter in Timisoara. On 20th of July, Gh. Doja was ruthlessly executed along with his captains: his younger brother Grigore Doja and Laurentiu Meszaros.
By the way in the Orthodox calendar 20 th of July is the Day of Prophet Elijah.
For example, in Maria Square where the terrible martyrdom of Gheorghe Doja and his surviving captains. In Maria Square the heads of the revolt were slaughtered in terrible torments unheard of until then, as eyewitnesses tell.
Gheorghe Doja was put on a throne of hot iron as a king. The other captains were plucked off their nails, then severed each finger away. They were beaten with hot iron.
According to the perpetuated legend to this day, the present Christians were forced to witness that terrible sight. The Jesuit monks brought to the place, religious hymns. During their singing they saw the gentle face of the Holy Virgin Mary descending from the air to the place of martyrdom and the Jesuit monks shuddered to the middle of their hearts.
Therefore, on that place they would have placed a wooden icon of the Holy Virgin in a box, making it a place of pilgrimage.
In 1865, the icon was replaced with a stone and the current chapel, where the statue of the Virgin Mary is carved in marble, was erected in 1906 in the square that bears its name.
The legend in this form, was also taken over by city historians, but it can only be accepted as long as the Jesuit monks are spoken for the legend is now confused with well-known historical data. The foundations of the Jesuit monks order were only put in 1534, 20 years after the Doja uprising. The life of Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the order, is too well known to be mixed with this legend.
The peasant revolt led by Gheorghe Doja was taking place in Transilvania, during 3 months from 9 of April until 15 of July in the year of 1514. But it really ended with the execution of Gh. Doja and his captains: Grigore Doja and Laurentiu Meszaros.
István Báthory, János Szapolyai sau János Zápolya (in Romanian language Ioan Zapolya), János Bornemisza were the kingdom’s landed nobility who was following the Gh. Doja in order to capture him and to quell the peasant’s revolt.
An army of 20.000 warriors led by János Zápolya and István Báthory, capture Gh. Doja while he and his peasant army where trying to enter in Timisoara. On 20th of July, Gh. Doja was ruthlessly executed along with his captains: his younger brother Grigore Doja and Laurentiu Meszaros.
By the way in the Orthodox calendar 20 th of July is the Day of Prophet Elijah.
