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Summary: Marko Šorić’s Baška chronicle
Josip Tomašić
Sažetak
From 1901 through 1909, Marko Šorić (1860-1949), a long-time sacristan of the parish church in Baška, wrote a chronicle of the town of Baška and its surroundings from the time before Christ and then an addendum covering the period up to 1936, when his wife died. The manuscript is just over 300 pages long. The first section, accounting for roughly two-thirds of the manuscript, covers the history of Baška, and in some cases the entire island of Krk, while the remainder is autobiographical, dealing with his childhood, his nearly four years of service in the Austro-Hungarian Navy, which includes a detailed description of a voyage to China and Japan on a sailing vessel with an installed steam engine, the problems he encountered after returning home, and his wedding and harmonious marriage. In turn, the aforementioned first, historical section contains numerous legends but also many transcripts of documents from 1461 onward. Šorić mastered the Glagolitic alphabet, from which he transcribed a great deal, and he also wrote some parts of his manuscript in that script. Much of his writing pertains to church history, to churches and chapels, to ecclesiastic institutions and the clergy. Although he was not a historian but an ordinary man with a primary school education, he took it upon himself to write what no other Baška resident before him had dared to: the history of Baška. His history serve as an incentive for experts to verify the sources and origins of his records.
Ključne riječi
Marko Šorić; Baška; island of Krk; history; church history; K. u. K. Kriegsmarine
Hrčak ID:
284378
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Datum izdavanja:
11.11.2021.
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