Supported by APELSO Trust Zrt, we can have a charter written in 1568 repaired in spring. The contract about this was signed by Archabbot Hortobágyi T. Cirill and dr. Antall György, a member of the board of directors of APELSO Trust Zrt on 19 January 2022. The charter will be repaired by Ars Alba Restaurátor Bt, Szentendre.

On the solemnity of Saint Martin, Pál József Csaba, the Bishop of Temesvár (Timișoara) was our guest. He presided the liturgy in the Basilica, he met the pupils of the secondary boarding school, and he was interested in the Library and the Museum, too.

On 4 November, the teachers and students of the Folk Music Department, Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Pázmány Péter Catholic University visited the Archabbey. All of them were folk musicians. In the Archives, the guests could see documents of the history of liturgy and music from the 15th-18th centuries besides mediaeval charters.

On 19 October, during the professional day organised in the Baross-street lecture-hall of the County Library of Győr, the member of our Archives, Boros Zoltán delivered a lecture entitled A Benedictine estate on the confines of the city of Győr: Estate-management and modernization at the beginning of the 20th century. The complete list of programmes can be seen here.

The members of the Museum of Ethnography visited Pannonhalma On 4 October, about sixty members of the Museum of Ethnography visited Pannonhalma. As one component of the day’s programme, they paid a visit to the Collections of the Archabbey (Library, Archives, Museum).

Researchers have already known the letter which was sent by Prioress Elena – the superior of the convent for Dominican sisters on the Isle of Rabbits (called Margaret Island today) – to her nephew, István Bocskay around 1520. According to scholars, the letter was put down in writing by Sister Lea Ráskay, the famous copyist of codices. The document in Hungarian belonged to the collection of the Erdődy Archives preserved in our institution.

The Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church Joseph I visited Pannonhalma.

This year, the Summer Academy of the HAS–PPCU “Vilmos Fraknói” Historical Research Group of Rome was held in Győr between 6 and 8 August.

The Association of Hungarian Archivists held its regular annual itinerary congress in Pannonhalma between 28 and 30 June 2021.

The Institute of History has published the volume of The Diocesan Councils of Pannonhalma by Dénesi Tamás. The collection and analysis of the documents was made possible by the programme entitled The Councils and Congresses of the Hungarian Catholic Church 1790–2010 supported by OTKA (The Hungarian Scientific Research Fund: Funding Basic Research in Hungary).