Collection of Erdélyi, Zsuzsanna

Zsuzsanna Erdélyi’s collection was the outcome of an unanticipated event in socialist Hungary. The ethnographer and her colleague Sándor Bálint created a collection of objects pertaining to Catholic folk practices in the mid-1970s with the public support of Cardinal László Lékai and the Catholic press. The survival of a significant number of private religious objects during the communist era demonstratd that many citizens lived active spiritual lives and cultivated the heritage of their parents and grandparents, despite the government prohibition against religion.

兹苏珊娜·埃尔迪的藏品系社会主义时期匈牙利一段出乎意料的经历所孕育。该民族志学者及其同事桑多尔·巴林特在1975年中期，在拉佐洛·莱卡枢机和天主教媒体的公共支持下，编纂了一系列与天主教民间习俗相关的物品。在共产主义时期，大量私人宗教物品的留存显示出众多公民过着积极的宗教生活，并培育着父辈与祖辈的遗产，尽管政府明令禁止宗教活动。