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Alms container

Alms container, 1910. One of the most important commandments is "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it.” This is why it is essential to help marriages to happen. Without a good financial and family background girls got married via Women’s Associations. Also they portioned the dowery that made the individual household possible. Anyone could contribute to the financial basis of the newly-wed family. The amount of the donations were usually low, yet everyone contributed. The silver alms container of the Women’s Association of Buda was to help the poor girls to get married, according to its inscription.