The assignment of this diploma thesis followed previous analysis of the regions of Valašsko and Haná. The outcome of this analysis showed several problems. One of the most serious problems is a lack of spiritual and liturgical sites in the area of Zlín. The analysis and synthesis preceding this diploma thesis are enclosed. The analysis of sites of pilgrimage in the area of Zlín was one of the studied subjects. The assignment of the diploma thesis was created using a combination of discovered data – design of the site of pilgrimage including a church and spiritual centre. This building is to support local community, christian religion and rehabilitation of the present site of pilgrimage Svatá voda – Kaménka. This diploma thesis deals with the design of a church as a site of pilgrimage, with facilities and café for the public. It also deals with the design of a spiritual centre with weekly spiritual programme. There are also four flats designed as accommodation for clergymen. The designed buildings are located 250 metres away form the present site of pilgrimage Svatá voda.

The main theme of the diploma is the design of a new Roman Catholic church and parish within the framework of the construction of a panel residential complex in Nový Líšeň in Brno. Due to the fact that Salesian children and youth workers came to the area in 1990, it became necessary to build a church and a Salesian youth center. This proposal is based on an analysis of the urban context. The church is surrounded by prefabricated houses next to a school, a health clinic, a shopping center, and a Salesian youth center in a gently sloping area facing south with the dominant Palava hills.

Dr. Josef Hronek as the Cathechetist and the Pedagogue The thesis presents the biography and the work of Josef Hronek (1890-1954) in the field of catechetics and pedagogy. The work is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is devoted to the biography of Josef Hronek, introducing primarily his academic career. The second chapter presents an overview of Hronek`s written works, his monographies and other books and articles in professional journals. Publications are divided into five groups, they are chronologically arranged, and each provides basic data about the publication and its purpose. The third chapter introduces the context in which Josef Hronek worked. The fourth chapter contains thematic analysis of the works dealing with catechetics and pedagogy, particular attention is devoted to the presentation of biblical teaching and liturgical education in his work. It also involves the evaluation of professional work of Josef Hronek, according to the period in which particular pieces arised, and comparison with his predecessors and contemporaries. These evaluations are summarized, in order to express the contribution of Josef Hronek to Czech catechetics and pedagogy.

Missa chrismatis and Its Changes in the Twentieth Century: A Comparison of Changes in Liturgy and Theology. Missa Chrismatis (Chrism Mass) is a Mass that the bishop celebrates in the Holy Week, together with his priests, which is a sign of mutual unity. During this Mass, the priests renew their priestly vows and the bishop consecrates the oil of catechumens, the oil of the sick and the chrism oil. The ceremony underwent several changes over the past century. These are reflected also in the theology, expressed in the liturgy by emphasizing of certain elements. The major reforms of the liturgy of the Mass took place in several stages in the 50`s, 60`s and 70`s of the 20th century. First, the thesis follows the basics and reasons for the use of oils in the liturgy of the Catholic Church in the context of Easter and then the historical development of the Mass, in which the oils are consecrated. Also it clearly compares the progress of the Missa chrismatis liturgy and captures differences in the liturgical texts and texts of the rite of benediction of oils in the various phases of the reform of the twentieth century. On this basis, it attempts to render the evolution in theological content. Keywords Missa Chrismatis, Benediction of Holy Oils, Chrism, The Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, Liturgical Reform.

Ce travail se concentre sur l’étude des chandeliers en bronze, en cuivre et en laiton en Europe entre le XIIIe et le XVIIe siècle, entreprise dans une perspective interdisciplinaire. Abandonnés depuis la fin du XIXe siècle au champ méprisé des arts mineurs et populaires, les chandeliers n’ont depuis cette époque jamais véritablement été considérés comme une thématique de recherche à part entière. Le caractère anépigraphe de ces objets ordinaires et l’impossibilité de lier facilement les modèles produits à des espaces de productions spécifiques ont jusqu’ici cantonné les problématiques à des questions stylistiques et typologiques.L’objectif de cette étude se fonde sur un principe de déconstruction historiographique afin de dépasser l’approche traditionnellement adoptée qui enlise les recherches dans des considérations aporétiques. La recherche fait appel à plusieurs types de sources – écrites, archéologiques, iconographiques et analytiques - dont l’alliance vise la recontextualisation des chandeliers. Il s’agit de décrire et d’analyser l’itinéraire d’un type d’ustensile dans les sociétés médiévale et moderne dans les deux contextes, profane et religieux, dans lesquels ils ont été utilisés. C'est pourquoi l’historicisation des chandeliers se construit, dans le cadre de cette étude, sur leurs matérialités.La recherche s’intéresse ainsi à la reconstitution des chaînes opératoires de la production métallurgique, à la caractérisation des hommes qui travaillent le cuivre et ses alliages ainsi qu’à celle des matériaux, à la diffusion de l’objet à travers la société et aux usages, pratiques, culturels, symboliques ou dévotionnels, qui lui sont attachés. Les réflexions contribuent également à souligner que l’interrogation croisée des champs disciplinaires permet de comprendre en quoi la typologie des sources, en ce qu’elles concernent différents groupes sociaux, différents contextes, différents protagonistes et différentes réalités lexicales, influence la façon de percevoir ces objets / This work focuses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, on bronze, copper and brass candlesticks produced in Europe between the 13th and the 17th century. These objects have been neglected since the end of the 19th century and abandoned to the despised field of minor and popular arts. Since that time, they have never been considered as a real research topic. Since these ordinary objects are anepigraphic and because of the impossibility to attribute them to specific workshops, the research have been reduced to stylistic and typological issues.This study aims at overcoming the traditional approach that confines research into aporetic considerations. It mobilized several types of sources – written ones, archaeological ones, iconographic ones and analytical ones – to study candlesticks in context. They contributed to describe and analyze the life course of an ordinary utensil in medieval and modern societies in both secular and religious contexts. This is why the historicization of candlesticks is here built on materiality.This work focuses on metallurgical production, on copper alloys craftsmen, on the composition of alloys, on the diffusion of candlesticks in society and on practical, cultural, symbolic and devotional uses. The discussion also points out that this methodology helps to understand how the different types of sources, because they concern different social groups, different contexts, different protagonists and different lexical realities, influence how these objects were perceived

Au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale émerge en France un mouvement de renouveau de l’architecture religieuse et de l’art sacré sous l’impulsion d’un clergé soucieux de repositionner l’Église au cœur de la création contemporaine. S’appuyant sur une liturgie réformée, la communauté religieuse s’engage dans l’édification de nouveaux lieux de culte, qui sont une occasion de mettre en œuvre des formes audacieuses par l’emploi de techniques constructives innovantes. Particulièrement meurtrie par la guerre, la Lorraine devient le site d’une modernité réinventée, un territoire riche d’expérimentations architecturales, formelles, constructives et typologiques, pour lesquelles les réalisations de l’entre-deux-guerres en Suisse et en Allemagne font figure d’avant-garde. Ce travail de thèse analyse les liens entre les aspirations de l’Église catholique, les contraintes imposées par le contexte de la Reconstruction et de l’urbanisation accélérée des territoires, et la réponse formelle et matérielle proposée par les concepteurs de l’époque. Le corpus général concerne la production de cent dix-sept projets et réalisations conçus en Lorraine entre 1945 et 1975. Il se concentre sur les architectures les plus novatrices, tout en répondant à la volonté de proposer une palette d’objets diversifiés, tant du point de vue de leur histoire que de celui de leur matérialité. Les églises du corpus sont l’œuvre d’architectes d’origines géographiques variées et à la notoriété multiple. En outre, ces réalisations, d’une envergure plus ou moins grande, s’inscrivent dans divers contextes géographiques : urbain, périurbain et rural. Croisant les approches quantitative et qualitative, ce travail s’articule autour de trois principaux champs de recherche :- les conditions de production de l’objet architectural : accès à la commande, financements, acteurs, etc. ;- les influences et la question de la réception, notamment au travers d’une étude des revues spécialisées et de la presse catholique ;- enfin, la matérialité de l’objet et sa réalité constructive. / In the aftermath of the Second World War in France, an iconic renewal of sacred art and religious architecture was triggered by the clergy being concerned to set the Church as the cornerstone of contemporary creation. Given the significant changes in religious rites at the time, the Christian community decided to build new places of worship giving them the opportunity to introduce bold designs based on innovative construction techniques. As one of the major battlegrounds of the Second World War, the Lorraine region then appeared to be the perfect field for rethinking modernity through a wealth of architectural, formal and building experiments inspired by groundbreaking creations made in Switzerland and Germany in the interwar period. Our research work analyses the links between the Catholic Church’s ambitions, the constraints resulting from the post-war Reconstruction and urban sprawl context, and both formal and material suggestions made by contemporary designers. The whole corpus includes one hundred and seventeen projects and productions created in Lorraine between 1945 and 1975. It focuses on the most pioneering buildings while offering a wide range of objects, be it for their historical background or their materiality. The selected churches were designed by architects from diverse regions and with variable fame. In addition, they differed in scopes and geographical contexts – urban, suburban and rural. Taking both quantity and quality perspectives into account, our study revolves around three main lines of research :– In which conditions were the architectural objects produced (ordering process, funding, stakeholders, etc.) ?– What influenced their production and how were they received ? This has been observed through the analysis of trade papers and the Catholic press.– Eventually, how to describe their material nature and their reality as construction products ?

The reception of the german dialect of the gregorian chant between 1900 an aprox. 1950 (Abstract) In today's musicology, the germanic chant dialect («germanischer Choraldialekt») ist nearly unimportant. Especially in the first half of the 20th century, it was very different. In particular, the invention of the term by Peter Wagner of Fribourg in 1925 promoted the perception of a melodic phenomenon, which can be found equally in many sources of plain chant in central europe. The oldest witnesses of the phenomenon are adiastematic sources, the youngest ones were restored, restituted or newly composed in the first half of the 20th century. So this tradition is existing for more than 1000 years. The present work examines how this tradition has been scientifically, historically and practically elaborated in the last century. The chapter on the history of research shows that the phenomenon of the germanic chant dialect was still considered a local tradition of individual dioceses or monasteries in the 19th century. Michael Hermesdorff from Trier was the first to recognize striking similarities between these fragmented traditions; his pupil Peter Wagner founded the basics of the scientific research. Not all musicologists agreed with Wagner's findings and explanations, but his term and his theory prevailed. In the...

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The Massacre of Chios (1824) by Eugéne Delacroix illustrates the titular genocide from the Greek War of Independence. This genocide was a veritable razing of the entire island by Ottoman Turks in 1822. Today, a replica of Delacroix's painting resides on the island inside the entrance of the Chios Byzantine Museum, located in a converted mosque built on the ruins of a Christian church. This site is a case for the existence of non-Western temporalities, including liturgical and Aegean temporalities, as they pertain to the commemoration of the massacre through interaction with the replica. These temporalities are not causal or linear as in the West. On Chios, everyday interactions with history happen through the orthodox devotions and concomitant emotions of the present, with temporally transcendent icons, relics, and rituals promoting the imbrication of temporalities. The layout of the mosque, in its simplicity, conforms roughly to the plan of a Greek Orthodox church with the museum space organized to emphasize this, encouraging a liturgical temporality. Given that Chiots remember the massacre victims as tantamount to saints, the saturation of Christian elements in Delacroix's composition communes with the museum space to create an active site of memory, with the replica functioning like the Holy Greek Orthodox icons in the adjacent room, inviting a liturgical temporality. A comparable site, Agio Minas, a major massacre site in Southern Chios, also exhibits genocide victims as saints through eikonic imagery; here, victims' remains are displayed as relics alongside an icon of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, setting the stage, so to speak, for the naos where blood still stains the stone floor. In a similar way, the replica located in the "narthex" of the museum mediates a preparatory experience that overlays a narrative of Christian martyrdom onto the museum's "naos," where visitors engage with the icon collection. The proximity of replica and Byzantine collection overlays Chios' destruction with that of Constantinople's, collapsing time and presenting the two as related events. The Chios Byzantine Museum exemplifies what anthropologist Nicolas Argenti has termed "Aegean temporality," where past and present overlap in physical and incorporeal sites of memory. Orthodox icons do just that: transcendent and a-temporal by nature, their efficacy lies in bringing the pictured figure into the present moment and "enfleshing" remembrance as a current reality. The replica Massacre of Chios likewise acts as an active a-temporal object. Because of affordances granted by the narthex space and eikonic associations, it sacralizes the museum space into a living site of memory. With Aegean temporality facilitating a constant re-experiencing of the massacre, the massacre's presence and potency is not something left in the past. The painting's status as a semi-icon supports the immediacy of the massacre, as the viewer spiritually interacts with the image in the present.

This thesis discusses the history of music in the city of Frenstat pod Radhostem at the turn of the 18th and 19th century, especially regarding the pastoral compositions made by local composers. It presents their life and work and also presents a complex historical contexts. An educational material was developed as a part of this thesis, it could be used in education, as well as in leisure time sector. These materials also include sheet music for potential practical use. Moreover, an analysis, transcription and digitization of selected works are also introduced in this thesis.