Izlaganje sa skupa
Velika and the Franciscans
Josip Poleto
Sažetak
The paper presents the importance of the Franciscans and the Franciscan monastery in Velika for Slavonia under the Turkish rule. The Franciscan monastery in Velika was of pronounced importance for the religious life of the Catholics under the Turkish rule. It became the very spring of the pastoral activity for the entire Slavonia under the Turkish rule, as well as the shelter for a small number of friars – priests who, despite the danger for their own lives, endeavoured to support and keep alive the faith of the oppressed and frightened Catholics. At the end of the 15th century, Franciscan monasteries in Slavonia, and among them the following: Petrijevci near Osijek, Voćin, Poljanska near Stražeman, St. Ladislaus in Podborje near Daruvar, Kloštar Ivanić, Remetinec near Varaždin, all belonged to the Province of the Holy Saviour. This is an important fact, because it was the Bosnian Franciscans, who had lived in Vicarage of Bosnia since 1514, who settled to Velika and started – at the end of the 16th century, i.e. under the Turkish rule – their beneficial activity in the territory of Slavonia, particularly in the wider Požega area. Friar Grga Čevapović, historian, writes that the presence of the Franciscans in Velika in 1339 is confirmed by the signet-ring of the monastery in Velika, bearing, in addition to the image of St. Augustin, also the year 1339. For the history of Velika, another important year was 1640, since in that year, in the monastery of Velika, a gymnasium flourished under the caring patronage of friar Ivan Mihailović from Požega, a learned, godly and scholarly man. The Franciscans had – upon the emperor’s decree of 19 April 1796 – been forced to leave the monastery in Velika; they indeed left it on 1st November 1797.
Ključne riječi
Velika; Franciscans; Franciscan monastery; Slavonia
Hrčak ID:
96542
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.11.2012.
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