Church of the Last Supper

King St Stephen donated the “income from the fairs or markets usually held in Szil” to the Bakonybél Abbey in 1037. At first, the worshippers attending the church consecrated in honour of St Wenceslas paid the tithe to the Premonstratensian provost in Csorna. Szil, a country town from the end of the 1400s, was one of the Kanizsay, Nádasdy and the Esterházy family’s most populous settlements. The demolition of the old All Saints’ Church and the construction of the new church took place under the guidance of the parish priest, Vince Csigi, over seven months in 1890. The monumentally sized, neo-Romanesque church designed by József Ullein was consecrated on 12 October 1890 by Bishop János Zalka. The statue of Jesus on the high altar was made by Károly Hild, a stonemason from Sopron. The gospel scenes on the side walls and the chancel arch were painted by József Samodai in 1964. The “Grove Mary” statue, found in 1777 in the neighbouring village of Kistata in the reedy grove next to the Linkó stream, stands in a columnal, canopied cabinet on the pillar opposite the pulpit. The picture of St Mary of Goretti at the entrance was painted by Masa Feszty.