The focus of the panel is on the hagiography and cult of patron saints of a particular land or nation (Landespatronen) on the example of the patron saints of Bohemia and Moravia (and possibly other countries) and their veneration in the Early Modern period. This theme is intimately connected to the formation of local and national identity and represents also the form of local domestication of Christianity. The individual speakers of the panel follow the ways this cult is reflected in different text genres, like chronicles, legends, prayers, sermons or hymns. Papers: Jan Andrle, Hagiographica Bohemica (the Currently Compiled On-Line Database of Czech-, Germanand Latin-Language Sources Dealing with the Theme of the Patrons of Bohemia and Moravia Created in the Church Province of Bohemia 1550-1750); Marie Škarpová: Early Modern Hagiography of Patron Saints of Bohemia; Alena A. Fidlerová: Early Modern Czech Sources on St. Cyril and Methodius, Patron Saints of Moravia and Bohemia.
Panelists: • Marie Škarpová (Charles University,) • Jan Andrle (Charles University,) • Victoria Legkikh (Universität Wien) - Construction of selfidentity of Rus as a Holy land through the Russian saint princes
