The Reformation reached this corner of the kingdom fast, and by the later sixteenth century most of the towns and much of the nobility of the region were Lutheran; Hlboké became a Lutheran village and has been one ever since. That is not a footnote. It decided who the village schoolmaster was, and what language people read in — Lutherans here wrote in Czech, the language of their Bible — and, three centuries later, who its pastor would be. In 1610 the synod of Žilina gave the Lutherans of this country a church organisation of their own, with bishops of their own. A village church is a small building that decides a great deal.Reformácia sa do tohto kúta kráľovstva dostala rýchlo a v druhej polovici 16. storočia bola väčšina miest a značná časť šľachty v kraji evanjelická; Hlboké sa stali evanjelickou dedinou a sú ňou dodnes. Nie je to poznámka pod čiarou. Rozhodlo to, kto bol v dedine učiteľom a v akom jazyku sa čítalo — evanjelici tu písali po česky, jazykom svojej Biblie — a o tri storočia neskôr aj to, kto tu bude farárom. V roku 1610 dala Žilinská synoda evanjelikom v tejto krajine vlastnú cirkevnú organizáciu s vlastnými biskupmi. Dedinský kostol je malá stavba, ktorá rozhoduje o mnohom.
