This article is concerned with ideological basis of Romantic Slavic messianism, which it exploresby considering the thinking of Samo Bohdan Hroboň (1820–1894). In the introductorysection, the author recalls the genesis and development of the term ‘messianism’. Here shetakes it to mean a special utopia comprising conviction, faith (and not solely religious) in beingchosen, and seeing oneself as the vehicle for the historical task of saving the world. The articledefines in detail the scholarly concept of the Slavic literary messianism of Oskár Čepan(1925–1992), its changes, and its subsequent reflection in literary studies by Cyril Kraus, StanislavŠmatlák, Joanna Goszczyńska, and Rudolf Dupkala. The second part of the article considersHroboň’s works. Drawing on texts with a primarily aesthetic function, the author reconstructsthe ideology that form the basis of the texts, paying particular attention to the process ofmystical sacralization, which appears as the sanctification of the Slovak nation.