Jonáš Záborský represented a strange phenomenon of the ideological, political and creative characteristics in the Slovak public life in the mid-19th century. He was born in a small noble family in Záborie near Martin on 3. February 1812. He studied at several secondary grammar schools, briefly attended the academy of law and eventually he decided to study theology and graduated in 1834. He became an Evangelic priest, but under pressure of the existential problems, he converted to Catholicism in 1842 and then he worked as a Catholic priest, first for the Germans in Košice and later in Župčany near Prešov. There...