Notebook for Chapel Visitos Recording…
The article is devoted to analysis of records made by visitors in the rural chapels. Records are made in notebooks kept in the chapel, by all of its visitors. These records contain prayer requests for help in a personal life and the texts of the canonical or folklore prayers, as well as secular texts: description of the weather, surroundings, the mood of chapel visitors, poetry, appeals to maintain the chapel that is seen as the "ancient monument" or the "memory of the ancestors". The article analyses roots of this phenomenon and maintenance of records, which allows us to make conclusions about changes in peasant religious consciousness in the second half of XX century.