Review article
Congregation of Daughters of Mercy, and Blato on the Island Korčula Until World War II
Vinicije Lupis
orcid.org/0000-0001-8516-9312
; The Institute of Social Sciences Ivo Pilar
Abstract
on the basis of the unpublished archival materials of the Dubrovnik Diocese archives which had not been consulted during the preparation of the cause, the author supplemented the existing knowledge about the life and work of the blessed Mary of jesus Crucified Petković, as well as a part of the activities of her Congregation of Daughters of Mercy. He elaborated the social and spiritual environment in which the blessed Mary of jesus Crucified Petković arose. she was born at blato, 10.12.1893, died in rome, 09.07.1966 and was the foundress of the Congregation of Daughters of Mercy, the third order of st. Francis, recognized as “blessed” by Pope john Paul II on 3rd june 2003. Her work was going on just in the most crucial moments of blato history, in the period of highest emigration, severe economic and spiritual crisis, emergence of two totalitarian ideologies and two world wars. the paper traces her charity activities until her departure for argentina, and for the first time pays attention to the coincidence that in 1919 the Communist Party of Yugoslavia founded its political cell at blato, in the same year that the blessed started her spiritual and charity work, which, with the effort of cardinal alojzije stepinac, also started developing in the Croatian north. It is exceptionally important to point out that the blessed sought to pastorate the poorest in her blato parish, having support of her that-time local parish priest, which resulted in far-reaching social and spiritual consequences, since just in that social stratum the Communist Party had the most widespread circle of supporters. as if the blessed had sensed that, just out of that circle, was to emerge the most consistent enforcer of the communist totalitarian regime in the wider Dubrovnik area.
Keywords
Mary of Jesus Crucified Petković; Congregation of Daughters of Mercy III Order of St. Francis; Blato on the island of Korčula; charity activities
Hrčak ID:
127461
URI
Publication date:
26.9.2014.
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