Review article
Roman Days of Saint Marko of Križevci
Danijel Labaš
orcid.org/0000-0002-2339-6277
; Hrvatski studiji Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Borongajska 83d, HR-10000 Zagreb
Abstract
The paper covers the period of life saint Ma¬rko Križevčanin (of Križevci) spent in the Papal Institute Germanicum et Hungaricum where he, being a student and candidate from Zagreb bisho-pric was ordained to the priesthood. He entered the said Institute on 1st November 1611. The very Institute had been established to meet the need for better education of Catholic clergy during Counter-Reformation. Pope Julius III, with the assistance of Cardinal Giovanni Morone and Ignatio Loyolla, the founder of the Society of Jesus, setup a seminary for German speaking students in Rome. Thus, today well-known ‘Collegium Ge-rmanicum’ legally came into existence on 31st August 1552, based on the papal bull ‘Dum sollicita’. That same year, on 28th October, the project was presented to the people of Rome. Jesuits were chosen to run the institute and they have been in charge of it ever since . All students had the same duties: years-long scientific, mostly theological research, devout and moral way of life based on monastic (Jesuit) spirituality with clearly defined daily schedule, acceptance of order taking, preparation for pastoral duties and, last but not least, return to their homelands upon completing the¬ir education. In 1580 Pope Gregory XIII united ‘Collegium Germanicum’ and the Hungaricum Institute into ‘Collegium Germanicum et Hunga¬ricum’. The newly formed establishment experienced various historic episodes together with the whole Catholic Church and Jesuit Order as well.
Saint Marko Križevčanin, the priest of Zagreb archbishopric and the dean of Ostrogon, was tortured in Košice, then belonging to Hungary and today in Slovakia, on 7th September 1619. Marko suffered martyrdom together with two friends of his who also were members of the Jesuit Order, Stjepan Pongracz and Melchior Grodziecki. The three were beatified by Pope Pius X in Rome on 15th January 1905.
On his pastoral visit to Slovakia Pope John Paul II canonized them in Košice on 2nd July 1995 . Marko Križevčanin is the only saint from ‘Germa¬nicum et Hungaricum Institute’ who with his own hand wrote in the Institute Catalogue: ‘Ego Mar-cus Stephanus Crisinus Croata, Diocesis Zagrabiensis...’.
This paper also analyses original documents from the 16/17th centuries kept in the archives of ‘Germanicum et Hungaricum’.
Keywords
Rimski dani Svetoga Marka Križevčanina Pregledni članak Germanicum et Hungaricum; Zagreb bishopric; clergy; Giovanni Morone; Ignatio Loyolla; Pope Julius III; Jesuits; Pope Gregory XIII; Košice; Stjepan Pongracz; Melchior Grodziecki; Pope John Paul II
Hrčak ID:
101282
URI
Publication date:
1.3.2013.
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