Recenzija, Prikaz slučaja
Entennial of the Church in which the Martyrs of the Drina professed their religious vows
Mato Zovkić
; Univerzitet u Sarajevu - Katolički bogoslovni fakultet, Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina
Sažetak
On the occasion of the beatification of Sr. Jula Ivanisevic and four Sisters of the Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity, who were massacred on 15 December 1941 at Gorazde (Eastern Bosnia) as representatives of the Catholic faith, the author presents a short history of the church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary in Sarajevo, in which the Martyrs of the Drina River professed their religious vows. The church was designed by Sarajevo architect Josip Vancas and built by Sarajevo contractor Ludwig Jungwirth. The building was consecrated by the bishop of Ljubljana, Anton Bonaventura Jeglic, on 1 October 1911. A. B. Jeglic was canon in Sarajevo from 1882 to 1898 and chaplain to the Daughters of Divine Charity, who came to Sarajevo from Vienna in April 1882 and soon opened a Grammar school for boys and girls, teaching, among other things, Croatian and German language. They also opened a Girls Teacher Training College at which Canon Jeglic taught pedagogy and for which he published his own manual for students. When in May 1945 the communists seized power in Yugoslavia they nationalized the schools operated by the Sisters and on 6 June 1949 they also expropriated the convent building so that 125 sisters and 15 novices had to move out immediately. Just four of them were able to take up residence in a building in the courtyard of their former convent. Other sisters had to go to their families or were accommodated in two monasteries of the Bosnian Franciscans. Sisters who remained in Sarajevo took care of their church and of elderly persons in their neighborhood. Thanks to domestic and foreign donors they were able to renovate the church in 1971, 1982 and 2008. During World War Two Bosnia and Herzegovina was included in the socalled Independent State of Croatia, which was a protectorate of Hitler’s Germany. Orthodox Cetniks were Serbian militia fighting against the officially Catholic Croatian dictatorial regime in Eastern Bosnia. On 11 December 1941 they broke into the convent of the Daughters of Divine Charity at Pale, burned down the convent with the chapel and forcibly took five sisters who were serving Orthodox and other neighbors in that
predominantly Orthodox town. Sister Berchmana Leidenix was 76 and could not walk through the snow in the cold winter weather. She was left in the village of Sjetlina and killed on 21 December. Superior Sr. Jula Ivanisevic, Sr. Krizina Bojanc, Sr. Antonija Fabjan and Sr. Bernadeta Banja were taken to the military barracks at Gorazde. On 15 December Cetniks tried to rape them in a room on the second floor where they had incarcerated them but the sisters jumped out of the window and were seriously injured. The Cetniks massacred them and the next day threw their corpses into the River Drina.
The process for their beatification was conducted in Sarajevo from 1999 to 2002 and in Rome from 2003 to January of 2011. They were beatified on 24 September 2011 in Sarajevo. The Sisters will erect an altar in their honor in the church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary in Sarajevo, in which the Martyrs of the Drina professed their religious vows. In consequence, this church will become their shrine.
Ključne riječi
Congregation of the Daughters of Divine Charity; schools operated by the Sisters in Sarajevo; A. B. Jeglic chaplain to the sisters in 1882-1898 and consecrator of their church in 1911; the church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary belonging to the sisters; vows of women religious; shrine
Hrčak ID:
272279
URI
Datum izdavanja:
22.2.2011.
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