Baron Rezső Kruchina hung a painting depicting Mary with the Baby Jesus on a tree in the Kiskút grove in 1928. He prayed here for his seriously ill son, then he added a sign with the words “Mary has helped” in thanks for his healing. In 1938, the respect for this picture in a chapel recess spread and the number of signs of thanks grew further. In the summer of 1947, the picture was torn from its frame, ripped in half and slashed. The culprit was caught, who (according to the official report) had been commissioned to do it for 30 forints by a stranger sitting in a car with Viennese plates. The whole diocese clubbed together to construct a home to safeguard the picture. Worshippers from Győr making pilgrimage to the September Osli indulgence pilgrimage collected donations for the chapel’s design. Sándor Schneider was then commissioned realise this. On 12 October, the restored picture was accompanied back to Kiskút by ten thousand people, each with a brick in their hands, led by Bishop Kálmán Papp. Many more people joined the crowd with even more building materials. The construction was done by voluntary work. The chapel’s foundation stone was laid by Jesuit Missionary Bishop, Miklós Szarvas, on 23 May 1948. The sanctuary of the pilgrimage chapel built in honour of the Helping Virgin Mary is open to the front and continues into nature. There is also a curved, branched, covered arcade opening to the left and right of the nave shaped by two arms. There is a St Joseph picture column transformed from the former chapel standing behind the building.

The first church in Újváros was the Salvator (Divine Saviour) Chapel built in 1965, which stood on the site of today’s Synagogue. The second was St Joseph’s Church, which stood on the site of today’s church. This originally Evangelical Church came into the ownership of the Catholics in 1749. As this then proved too small, the current church was built in Neoclassical style between 1836 and 1841 according the plans of Antal Fruhmann. The coat of arms of the city of Győr, which built the church, is located above the high altar. It is Győr’s second largest church, with a floorspace of 660 m2. In the high altarpiece depicting the scene on the mountain of the “Lord’s Transfiguration”, Jesus shows his divinity to three apostles (Peter, James and John), so that his persecuted disciples can also draw strength from this later. A statue of St Stephen, the patron saint of Győr, stands next the high altar. The organ, which was made in Bratislava, was brought by boat to Győr in 1854. The St Joseph side altar, made in 1896, can be found in the right-hand series of chapels.

The Ursuline nuns, led by Mary Alexia, began operations in Győr in 1726. St Anne’s Church was built in 1762 as a convent and school. The Baroque building complex, complete with a church parallel to the street front, is decorated with tiny ridge turrets. The three ceiling frescoes are the work of István Schaller. The picture above the sanctuary shows Mary’s betrothal. The cupola’s fresco depicts scenes from the lives of four saints (Ursula, Angela, Ignatius and Gregory) around Christ. The picture above the gallery shows the patron saint of musicians, St Cecilia, making music. Since 1908, an image of St Anne can be seen among the Baroque high altar’s original statues. The Ursuline school in Győr functioned from its foundation in 1726 until its nationalisation in 1948. The nuns were taken away during the night of 18 June 1950. The church remained a place of worship even during its time of dissolution, but its bell was only heard again in 1993 (after 43 years of enforced silence). The convent and school were then returned to the order too.

The church was constructed next to the decrepit alms-house for German citizens, the so-called German Spital in 1746 in honour of the Holy Trinity thanks to the Cecilia Wagner (widow of Haberle Farkas) Foundation. The richly carved altar is one of Győr’s most beautiful Rococo monuments. The altarpiece between the statues of St John of Nepomuk and St Nicholas was probably painted by István Schaller. The statue of the Virgin Mary on the lateral wall is a copy of the Virgin Mary statue in Mariazell (its back bears the corroborating seal from the famous Austrian shrine and the date 1766). Remarkable Baroque works include framed oil paintings depicting St Joseph, St John the Baptist and St Francis of Borgia.

György Széchenyi, Bishop of Győr, established a foundation in 1666 to create and maintain homes for elderly Hungarian citizens. The Hungarian Spital Church was built near this in 1735. It was designed by Márton Wittwer, a Carmelite monk. The Baroque church tower was not built onto the facade, rather next to the sanctuary. The church was originally built in honour of St Elisabeth, but St Anne’s picture took its place on the high altar later. St Joseph stands on the left-hand side of the picture while a gilded wooden statue of St Joachim stands on the right. Angels stand at the top of the outer columns of the altar’s superstructure, there are seated statues of the Son of God and God the Father on the inner chapiters while the symbol of the Holy Spirit (statue of a dove) can be found in front of the round window’s stained glass. The side altar’s picture of St Elisabeth, painted around 1740, is flanked on its two sides by gilded wooden statues of St John of Nepomuk and Bishop St Nicholas. There is an oil painting depicting St Martin on the upper part of the altar; below this, there is a glass cabinet containing a statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague.

The Gyóró Evangelical branch belongs to Vadosfa. The congregation’s place of worship is one of the halls in the former school building. The altarpiece depicting the crucifixion of Jesus was painted by András Fiáth. The picture and the altar came from the Lutheran church in the neighbouring village of Kisfalud. The chapel’s pulpit was added in 2014.

(Eszterháza) For centuries, Eszterháza was a village without its own, independent ministry; worshippers attended Mass in the Esterházy Castle Chapel. The village’s Holy Cross Exaltation Church was consecrated on 2 June 1985. The modern building was designed by István Szabó, Ferenc Bán and László Bihary. Its interior designer was Kristóf Asbóth. The church boasts roomy, bright interior spaces. Its high altarpiece is the “Eszterházi Golgata”, created by painter Erzsébet Udvardi. The Stations of the Way of the Cross pictures on wooden panels are also her work. One of the side altars chronicles the birth of Jesus with the Three Kings paying homage, the other resurrection with the adoration of St Thomas. The church’s organ was built by Péter Takács in 2008. The Holy Family statue in the park in front of the church was created in 1740.

The monumental church built around 1760 was extended in 1847. The tower’s steeple was rebuilt in its original form during restoration in 1964. The church’s ornaments include the “presentation of the Virgin Mary” altarpiece and the Baroque altar structure with twisted Corinthian columns, cornice, curved pediment and wavy, acanthus leaf wing decoration.  Next to the altarpiece, there are two kneeling sculptures of two Hungarian saints, which were probably carved at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Below each of them, there are altar cards in gilded Rococo wooden frames made around 1780. The chancel arch’s Heart of Jesus picture was painted by Gusztáv Hargitai, a former teacher and headmaster in the village. Zoltán Závory painted the “Angelic Greeting and “Coronation of Mary” murals in the sanctuary as well as the symbols of the sacraments on the ceiling . The enamelled station pictures of the Way of the Cross were made by Anett Tilinger.  

Felpéc was a tithe-paying parish in the Middle Ages, in which the Lutheran Reformation was firmly implanted by the middle of the 16th century. The village was ravaged by the Turks at the end of the 16th century, after which documents mention it as a devastated village. It was rebuilt in the 1620s. The first Lutheran church was built in 1630. In 1749, worshippers from a large area congregated here when they abolished the Győr Evangelical Church. In 1752, the Felpéc congregation applied to the county for permission to extend the church. However, construction only began 24 years later, in 1776. The church was consecrated in 1777 whereas the tower was built in 1794. The church was restored following a fire in 1812 while the tower, a corniced clocktower, was rebuilt in 1819. The church has a flat-ceilinged, balconied nave, and its flat-roofed sanctuary features a 19th-century pulpit altar. The altarpiece depicts Christ praying on the Mount of Olives. The red marble baptismal font dates from 1905, the organ from 1910.

Egyházasfalu, Chapels and statuesKisgógánfa: the Mary Chapel stands at the edge of the village on the forest road (it was built by the Sopronhorpács Széchényi counts)Dasztifalu: the plague saints (Roch, Sebastian and Rosalia) statue group from 1710, the Holy Trinity statue from 1805 and the belfryKeresztény: a lone chapel stands on the edge of the village, in a field next to the Szakony road. According to the inscription on its facade, “this was erected by the parish of Keresztény in 1876 in honour of the Virgin Mary”. Other sacral places of interest • Statue of Mary (churchyard, Ady Endre utca) • Stone cross (circa 1860, Hunyadi utca) • Statue of Mary (1807, Kossuth utca) • Endre Réffy’s tomb and commemorative plaque (Fő utca cemetery) • KALOT folk college - Ebergény castle (1942-1949, Fő utca) • Towards Marácz, the Mary statue (Fő utca) • Getlér picture (in the street on the way to the Keresztény chapel) • Stone cross in the lakeside lay-by (1859, between Keresztény and the railway station)

(Keresztény) Before the Mongol invasion, the village of Keresztény was the property of the Templar Knights, which later became the Order of the Knights Hospitaller St John of Rhodes and Malta. Their Sopron Prior, the poet Mátyás Nyéki Vörös, gave it to the Jesuits in 1636. They built a new church in honour of the Holy Cross in 1724. The village’s Baroque church features an eight-sided stone steeple with a double cross on its corniced clock tower. The base of the tower and the sacristy are wagon-vaulted. There is a gilded embossed shape of the Sower on the pulpit’s balustrade while its sounding board features the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. The high altar’s pillars and rail are in braided style while instead of an altarpiece, there is a group of statues surrounded by angels: the crucified Jesus, Mary Magdalene embracing the cross, John the Apostle and Mary. The Father and the dove representing the Holy Spirit can be found above them. St Emeric and St Elisabeth are depicted on the sanctuary’s stained-glass windows. There is a plaque commemorating the heroes of the First World War next to the painting on the north wall. Four windows remaining from the medieval church can be found on the south side.

A folk high school functioned until 1949 in this parish established by the unification of four villages (Kisgógánfa, Egyházasfalu, Dasztifalu and Keresztény) that had grown together. Egyházasfalu’s ancient church was ministered over by prominent pastors. These include János Sylvester (1504-1551), an Evangelical writer and translator of the Bible, and Endre Réffy (1828-1905). The latter took part in the 1848-49 War of Independence as a Piarist ordinand, thus suffering imprisonment, and was then parish priest for 32 years. Under his ministry, the new church was built according to the plans of József Ullein. Built in 1888, the neo-Romanesque church was affixed to the nave of the old church and its 33-metre-high tower was reconstructed and preserved. The high altarpiece depicting St George was painted by Ferenc Storno. Its altars and pulpit were made in Tyrol while its sculptures were carved in János Heckenast’s Szombathely workshop. 

The Roman Catholic Church is located in a lovely park in the middle of the village. The altarpiece depicting St Florian was created after a fire in 1886. The churchyard boasts a stone cross on a pedestal with a statue of Mary.

The building is under local heritage protection. There is a commemorative plaque to the Evangelical preacher Gergely Edvi Illés on its external wall. He fell victim to the persecution of protestants in 1675 and died as a galley slave near Naples.

The original medieval church was damaged in 1683 during the Turkish ravages. The date of 1837 on the stone-framed door marks the year of its restoration. The Romanesque sanctuary dates back to the 13th century whereas its Baroque nave and tower are from the 18th century. The pulpit and the side altars are also 18th century works. To be more precise, the latter were created around 1770. The 19th-century organ probably came from the Sopron Dominican Church. Ebergőc has a number of statues in public places, including the Pietà column with vine motifs (on the road leading to the cemetery), the cross with the Virgin Mary in front of the church from 1798, the statue of Mary with the baby Jesus, a copy of the Eisenstadt devotional statue, also in front of the church, from 1810-1820.

The parish church of the village established from Danube island settlements formerly belonging to Doborgaz, Keszölcés, Vajka and Süly was built in 1940. The tower was built in the 1960s and its steeple in 1982. The church’s furnishings also benefitted from donations from the capital. The pews brought from the Church of St Anthony of Padua in the Zugló district were cut to size by local carpenter, Mihály Szelle. The statue of Jesus also came from Budapest, by favour of priest and poet László Timaffy (1888-1972) who came from the village. Other sacral points of interest in the village include crosses and the Nagysziget Mary Chapel. Dunasziget celebrates three saint’s days each year, St Stephen, the patron saint of Dobrogaz, St Rosalia, the patron saint of Sérfenyő, and St Nicholas, the patron saint of Cikola. All three saints appear on the church’s stained-glass windows designed by Asztrik Kákonyi. 

The village’s former church was built by the Hédérváry family; it was then renovated by György Széchényi, Archbishop of Esztergom, after its destruction during the Turkish era. On 1 September 1845, 40 houses in the village were destroyed by fire, along with the church. The current church was built between 1847 and 1849, according to the plans of János Lengerer. As a result of flooding in 1876, one part of the building that had subsided had to be demolished and new foundations and walls built. The church has been completely refurbished recently, gaining ornamental flag paving, while its surroundings have been covered with paving-stones. The building is in Classicist style. The Baroque pulpit came from the neighbouring Dunaszeg church. The paintings in the nave are 19th-century copies while the picture in the sanctuary was painted by Zsolt Malasits. The pews were made by Károly Schreiner, who also renovated the baptismal font in 1783. The church’s oldest bell was cast in 1740. The organ was produced by the Rieger factory in 1906.

The small building near the cemetery gate is known as the “White Picture”. There are painted reliefs in the recesses on the four sides of the square, walled, white-washed, red-roofed tower with a double cross. These works, created in 1859, have images of the Virgin Mary and the Crucifixion of Jesus as well as two other important saints for the inhabitants of Dunaszentpál. The village was famous for its livestock breeding, so St Wendel, the patron saint of shepherds, and St Florian, the protector of those dwelling in flammable, thatched houses, are also depicted on the picture column. 

The village’s first church was built in 1600. The current church was built in 1720 by Countess Teresa Viczay. The originally Baroque church has been modified slightly since then. There are statues of St Peter and St Paul on the two sides of the altar edifice. The large altarpiece depicts the former patron saint of the church, St Barbara. Above it, there is a painting of our Blessed Lady of the Snows. The ceiling frescoes depict biblical scenes: Jesus’s baptism, Jesus walking on the water and the miraculous draught of fish. The paintings on the choir’s balustrade depict the Basilica of Esztergom and the Basilica of Győr. The tower houses a tolling-bell as well as an “A” toned and a “C sharp” toned bell. There is a statue of Mary in a cave chapel in the park in front of the church, where the 14 stations of the Way of the Cross were also built in 2006.

The church dedicated to the patron saint of those who travel on or live by the water was built in 1775 (or 1812, according to another source). The Remete congregation functioned as a subsidiary of the Püski parish for centuries, part of the Esztergom Diocese. From 1993, it belonged to the Diocese of Győr. The tiny village boasted an important harbour, which was closed by the 1992 diversion of the Danube. You can cross over to Slovakia, to Gabčíkovo on Žitný ostrov (Great Rye Island), by the ferry which departs from next to the ferry house. There is a park and campground near the ferry as well as a metal statute entitled the “Danube boatman”.