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St. Nicholas and Hvar

Joško Bracanović orcid.org/0000-0002-9923-2025

Abstract

This article is an expanded version of a presentation given on December 5th 2011 at a symposium for the 150th anniversary of the Confraternity of St. Nicholas. The chants of the saint’s life which are sung in Hvar are described, together with the churches of St. Nicholas the Upper and St. Nicholas the Lower in Hvar, the chapel of St. Nicholas in Zaraće, and altars dedicated to the saint - in the Cathedral, the church of the Holy Spirit, the Franciscan, Dominican and Augustinian churches, and depictions of his image on altarpieces, reliefs and flags. Also described are the saint’s reliquaries, the confraternities dedicated to his name, and the veneration of the saint throughout the history of Hvar Town. The appendix contains the saint’s “Life” from the archive of the Confraternity of St. Nicholas.

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Hrčak ID:

129863

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/129863

Publication date:

26.11.2014.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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