In the Veszprém Archiepiscopal College, on 4 May 2022, a conference was organized on the history of the diocese between 1777 and 1850. The programme was a part of the series of conferences on diocesan history that has become traditional by this time. Dénesi Tamás gave a talk on Dissolution and Reorganization: Benedictine Institutions in the Diocese.

The collection of the digitalised registers of births, marriages and deaths in the Territorial Abbey of Pannonhalma has been moved to "Matricula", the shared ecclesiastic archival webpage. New researchers can register on the webpage of matricula.hu. After registration and entry, it is in the “Subscription” ("Előfizetés") menu item where our service can be ordered by putting it into the cart. Accesses will be activated as before on receipt of the bank transfer, and subscribers will get their bills in e-mail. Also, in case of subscription-renewal, you are required to register on matricula.hu. The automation of the registration-process and the construction of the bankcard-payment are both in progress.

The Bulletin of the Collections of the Archabbey of Pannonhalma has been published. Half of the papers in Collectanea Sancti Martini IX show the readers around the Middle Ages. This volume also reveals, whether Maria Theresa visited Pannonhalma, how Kühár Flóris was through his imprisonment during the Hungarian Soviet Republic, and we are given a glimpse into the start of beer-brewing in Pannonhalma.

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.