Dubnica's part in the Slovak national awakening was played out in its parish house. Andrej Mésároš, František Xaver Hábel and Michal Rešetka all served here, in a generation of Catholic priests who were quietly turning a spoken language into a written one. Rešetka spent his life collecting Slovak books and manuscripts at a time when very few were being printed, and a good deal of older Slovak writing survives because he gathered it up. A hundred years after Magin, the Slovak question was still being argued in the same building.Podiel Dubnice na slovenskom národnom obrodení sa odohral na fare. Andrej Mésároš, František Xaver Hábel aj Michal Rešetka tu pôsobili – v generácii katolíckych kňazov, ktorá potichu menila hovorenú reč na písanú. Rešetka celý život zbieral slovenské knihy a rukopisy v čase, keď ich vychádzalo veľmi málo, a nemálo staršieho slovenského písomníctva sa zachovalo práve preto, že ich pozbieral. Sto rokov po Maginovi sa slovenská otázka riešila stále v tej istej budove.
