Lower Savinja Valley in visitation minutes of Archbishop of Gorizia Karl Michael von Attems
Keywords:
Lower Savinja Valley, Galicia, Gotovlje, Šempeter v Savinjski dolini, Šmartno ob Paki, Žalec, visitations, Archdiocese of Gorizia, Karl Michael Count AttemsAbstract
Drawing on the visitation minutes of the first Archbishop of Gorizia, Karl Michael von Attems, the author of the article aims to present the ecclesiastical conditions in the Lower Savinja Valley during the second half of the eighteenth century. Apart from the archbishop, visitations were also conducted by his various substitutes (delegates), the Celje city parish priest and Archdeacon Dr. Martin Sumpichler, as well as Rudolf Joseph von Edling, Auxiliary Bishop of Gorizia. The visitations were carried out with a view to assessing the ecclesiastical conditions across parishes, visiting numerous castle chapels and poorhouses, consecrating churches, granting various levels of clerical ordinations to both diocesan and monastic candidates for the priesthood, as well as settling various administrative affairs.
