1784 · 1828 Sheep, bees and nine hundred peopleOvce, včely a deväťsto ľudí

In 1784 the village had 127 houses and 949 inhabitants; by 1828, 116 houses and 1,264 people. They lived by keeping sheep and bees and by working in the forest — a poor upland living, on ground that was never going to grow grain in quantity. A village of that size with a pilgrimage attached to it is an odd thing to be: a few hundred families in a wooded bowl for most of the year, and for a few days each September, a crowd.V roku 1784 mala obec 127 domov a 949 obyvateľov, v roku 1828 už 116 domov a 1 264 ľudí. Živili sa chovom oviec, včelárstvom a prácou v lese — chudobným horským hospodárením na pôde, ktorá obilie vo väčšom nikdy neuživila. Dedina takej veľkosti s púťou je zvláštny útvar: väčšinu roka pár stoviek rodín v zalesnenej kotlinke a niekoľko septembrových dní dav.