Cache brief
The cache itself is a regular 20cmx12cmx9cm sized clip-and-close lunchbox appx 120m distance from the ruins at ground level in the natural cavity of rock stones covered with twigs and leaves at the coordinates provided. The cache is also published under the name of GCSJAT in the Hungarian geocaching site here.
How to approach the cache
The recommended parking place is the 'Jóbarát' ('Good friend') forest rest area can be reached from Sáska village by turning right from the north end of Ifjúság street where the solid pavement changes to gravel and where the red stripe tourist sign leads out from the village. After a short 800 meters you reach the Jóbarát rest area where you can leave the car behind and start walking.
The road is very easy: walk along the path signed by red stripe in the forest - that's all practically. After appx 700m walking you pass the rock formation of the 'Ember-kő' (Man-rock), which is formed by the erosion and by the wind. The man-shape will best come out in winter when trees lose their leaves and you go some 50-70 m further on the path and look back to the rock. After another 850 meters of walking along the peaceful and still pathway signed by the red stripe you arrive to the destination: to the St Jacob waterspring and to the ruins of St Jacob monastery.
About the Pauline Order and the monastery
The ruins of the St Jacob monastery is one of the earliest building relic remained from the Pauline Order, which is the only male religious order founded in Hungary by the Blessed (Boldog) Özséb, the prebend who later became a hermit. The earliest record of St Jacob monastery was made by Paul the bishop of Veszprém: he mentioned the monastery in a certificate issued in 1263.
After more than five hundred years of prospreity and blossoming in the region the Pauline Order became one of the many victims of the mindless measures made in the name of Great Enlightenment in 1786: the Austrian-Hungarian emperor Joseph the second (a.k.a. the "Hatted King" in Hungary, as he resigned himself from the coronation) issued his order to disintegrate the Pauline Order; as he expressed, he did not find them 'useful enough'. The Order backed off into Poland where they had only two monasteries. Paulines migrated back to Hungary in 1934 when they became owners of (with other churches in Hungary) the Cave Church too carved into Gellért-hill in Budapest. After surviving the 2nd World War and the pointless demolition of the Soviet bear and the communism the Order was re-born in Pécs (Hungary) in 1989 which is the year of regime change. Nowadays the Pauline Order is not only present but is also continously enhancing in Hungary and is operating for everyone's satisfaction in many locations.
The reconstruction of the ruins was carried out in 2014 when the priest's handwashing chamber with the octogonal-shaped basin was also discovered.
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