1849 · 1848 · 1854–1859 A poet is carried up the hill to be baptisedDo tohto kostola priniesli krstiť básnika

The revolution of 1848 abolished serfdom across the Kingdom of Hungary — the legal duty of a peasant to work his lord's land — which turned tenants into smallholders and left the small gentry of villages like this one with fields they now had to pay someone to farm. The next year, in a gentry family at Vyšný Kubín on the far side of Dolný Kubín, a son was born and named Pavol Országh; he was brought to the church at Leštiny to be baptised, and as a boy in the later 1850s he was schooled partly here and partly at Jasenová. He grew up to write under the name Hviezdoslav and to prove, against the whole pressure of a Hungarian-language schooling, that Slovak could carry great literature. The building he was carried into is still standing on its hill.Revolúcia roku 1848 zrušila v Uhorsku poddanstvo — povinnosť sedliaka pracovať na panskom — čím sa z poddaných stali maloroľníci a drobnému zemianstvu v dedinách, ako je táto, zostali polia, na ktoré si teraz muselo niekoho platiť. O rok neskôr sa v zemianskej rodine vo Vyšnom Kubíne, za Dolným Kubínom, narodil syn Pavol Országh; krstiť ho priniesli do kostola v Leštinách a ako chlapec chodil koncom päťdesiatych rokov do školy sčasti tu a sčasti v Jasenovej. Vyrástol z neho básnik píšuci pod menom Hviezdoslav, ktorý napriek celému tlaku maďarskej školy dokázal, že slovenčina unesie veľkú literatúru. Stavba, do ktorej ho priniesli, stojí na svojom kopci dodnes.