Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.53745/bs.94.4.2

»There is Nothing Better than Brothers Living in Harmony«. Correspondence of Mother M. Amadeja Pavlović with Bishop Varnava Nastić

Jasna Krista Mijatović ; Philosophical and Theological Institute of the Society of Jesus, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The focus of the research is the correspondence of Mother M. Amadeja Pavlović (Petrovaradin, 1895 – Sušak/Rijeka, 1971), Provincial Superior of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross in the period from 1943 to 1955, with the Hvostan Bishop Varnava Nastić (Gary, United States, 1914 – Beočin, Serbia, 1964). The correspondence between these two honorable individuals took place over less than two years, from May 1951 to January 1953, and consists of six letters and one poem. Bishop Varnava wrote four letters and a poem, while Mother M. Amadeja authored two letters. The results of the research, carried out using the content analysis method, show that both Bishop Varnava and Mother M. Amadeja possessed a strong and refined sense of the efforts of Christian unity. In this context, the Bishop’s account of the blessed Alojzije Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb, is particularly valuable.

Keywords

Mother M. Amadeja Pavlović; Bishop Varnava Nastić; Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross; correspondence; (dis)unity of Christians; Alojzije Stepinac.

Hrčak ID:

327368

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/327368

Publication date:

29.1.2025.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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