The state and the church: the phenomenon of pilgrimage in Slovakia (to the twenty-ﬁfth anniversary of the "Candle Demonstration")
The article is dedicated to the phenomena meaningful for the Slovak oppositional movement, namely pilgrimage and the «Candle Demonstration» of March 25, 1988. Archival materials are used to demonstrate the process of politicisation among the Slovak Catholics under the inﬂuence of the «cryptal» church. The author analyses the correlation of the two different forms of non-violent resistance (the so called «apolitical politics») – Charter 77 and protest moods within the Catholic Church.