Review article
Stipan Grdenic, the great provost of Pecs, Hungary and his "baroque flowers"
Đuro Franković
; Pecs, Hungary
Abstract
By his writing and translations, the great provost Stipan Grdenić (also known as Stipan Gerdenich, hun. Gerdenich István, b. 1786 – d. 1848) enriched the Croatian, primarily religious literature among the Croats in Pecs’s diocese and beyond, and in great deal Hungarian and German, grounded in his faithful love for God and man. He established a strong cult of Virgin Mary, so typical for Baroque and thus promoted the moral education of his fellow Christians. The legacy of S. Grdenić spans the timeline of the development of the written word in this tri-lingual area, i.e. Hungarian Croats as well as all Croats. He proved to be both a Hungarian, and a Croatian patriot. He tried to raise the cultural and spiritual level of common folks' life. Croatian Christians living in Hungary to this day turn to his writings, written in their native language. In Croatian language he wrote, "to the spiritual benefit of the Illyrian people", a prayer book, the sermons, and in three languages laid the foundations structuring the cult of virgin Mary, publishing books in 9000 copies (!)
Keywords
prayer books; sermons; the cult of Virgin Mary; trilingual edition; Baroque
Hrčak ID:
148969
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Publication date:
1.6.2015.
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