This monument is among the oldest in the town of Kom\u00e1rno. It was erected in 1715, during R\u00e1k\u00f3czi’s uprising, as attested by the inscription on the southern side of the pedestal.<\/p>\n
During R\u00e1k\u00f3czi’s war of independence the town of Kom\u00e1rno suffered two fires: the Austrians stood at the castle, the kurucs stood at the edge of the town, but the castle cannon were aimed at the town \u2013 in case the town gates should be opened to the kurucs. At that time the townspeople vowed that if the town escaped, a statue of the Most Holy Trinity would be erected.<\/p>\n
In the storms of the war of independence the statue had not yet been built, and from 1710 the population was threatened by another disaster: the plague arrived in Kom\u00e1rno. There was a day when more than half a hundred people fell victim to it. In the moments of horror, Istv\u00e1n Cserk\u00f3, the parson of the Church of St. Andrew, managed to persuade the town council to renew the vow to erect a statue of the Most Holy Trinity.<\/p>\n
Immediately after the plague, a wooden statue of the Holy Trinity was temporarily placed in the town marketplace. The foundation stone of the present statue was laid by the head of the Jesuits in Kom\u00e1rno on 2 February 1714, and he consecrated the finished statue in 1715.<\/p>\n
At the top of the column is placed a sculptural group depicting the Holy Trinity and the coronation of the Virgin Mary. On the pedestal are the figures of five saints: St. Anthony, St. Sebastian, St. Rosalia, St. Roch, and St. Francis Xavier. On the rim of the pedestal a Latin hexameter with a chronogram is engraved about each saint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":392,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"tags":[],"kategoria-programov":[108],"obec":[115],"class_list":["post-1503","zaujimavost","type-zaujimavost","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategoria-programov-with-culture","obec-komarno"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/zaujimavost"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/zaujimavost"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"kategoria-programov","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategoria-programov?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"obec","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitdanube.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/obec?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}