Research is being done for months now as a preparation for the Historia Domus conference. With the help of colleagues the historian expert of the project is using not only the volumes of the ‘house history’ kept in the Hungarian Franciscan Library and Archives of Budapest, but also other source materials about Szentkút. A part of these, among others, is the series of visitation records survived in the Esztergom Primate Archives of which the volume of the so-called Batthyány visitation is of outmost significance. On its occasion, Szentkút shrine as a filial church of Nagybárkány parish was visited by the competent canon on 2nd September 1789 with other local ecclesiastical and secular officials being present. The basis of the text included in the volume (Fig. 1) was a draft by parish priest József Kiss, which was commented on by László Kemény (former archdeacon in Nógrád County) on the margin of each page. The latter document was bound in the same volume as the official relations (Fig.2).
