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In his 1583 ritual entitled Agendarius, which was innovative in many respects in comparison to its Hungarian predecessors, Bishop Miklós Telegdi of Pécs, the administrator of the diocese of Esztergom, added sample-like sermons to the rituals of the administration of the sacraments accompanying the great turning points of life (viz. baptism, confirmation, wedding etc.). He was presumably guided chiefly by pastoral considerations. For the second edition of 1596 (published after Telegdi’s death), the editors added a second funeral sermon, clearly intended for a more educated, urban audience – judging from the scholarly Latin quotations and the general tone. A comparison of the structure and content of the two speeches provides useful conclusions as to what the ecclesiastical authorities of the time considered advisable to preach at the time of death to mourners lacking basic schooling and what to the more learned audience.

Nem tudom, kicsoda az ember (szerencsére nem vagyok egyedül, többek között a nyolcadik zsoltár szerzője is szolidáris velem), következésképpen azt sem, ki a mai ember. Továbbmenve pedig, még a fölöttébb gyanús ki vagyok én kérdés sem tekinthető csupán amolyan pubertáskori identitáskeresésnek; ne feledjük súlyos teológia- és filozófiatörténeti hozadékát. Itt csupán három alapmodellre utalok.