Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Heiling
- Transliteration
- de Heiling
Saints
HIGH RISK: Bavarian Catholic folk piety centers heavily on local patron saints, wayside shrines (Marterl), and saints’ name-days (Namenstag, traditionally celebrated more than birthdays in rural Altbayern); ‘de Heiling’ overwhelmingly defaults to venerated canonized figures, not Paul’s sense of all believers.