Original scientific paper
Dating the Building of the Augustine Monastery and Church of St. Jerome in Rijeka
Marko Medved
orcid.org/0000-0002-2221-9121
; Theology in Rijeka, Dislocated Studies of Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Rijeka, Croatia
Abstract
Author tries to determine the exact time when the monastery and the church of the Augustine hermits were built in Rijeka. These monks were the first ones in the city, and they resided in the monastery and church of St. Jerome from the medieval times up to 1788, when Joseph II has closed the monastery. History of the Augustine order is rather unknown and not well investigated in the Croatian historiography, not only regarding city of Rijeka but also in other parts of Croatia, especially concerning Middle Ages. Therefore, on the basis of relevant literature and uninvestigated archival sources author concludes that the building of the monastery and church should be associated with the second half of the fourteenth century. Such a conclusion differs from the previous historiographical suppositions that placed the arrival of the Augustinian order in Rijeka in the first half of the same century, and this supposition was constructed on the data grasped from the ambiguous genealogy of the lords of Rijeka (the counts of Devin and Wales family). Moreover, the author emphasizes that historians of the Augustine order do not recognize direct continuity between hermits, who lived in Northern Africa in the fourth century and who lived by rules written by St. Augustine, and monastics who formed the Augustine order in the thirteenth century. Instead, the author underlines that the Augustine order from the sixteen century is included within mendicant orders, and such classification was based on the fact that they leaned on the tradition and examples of St. William the Hermit.
Keywords
Augustine order; church and monastery of St. Jerome; Rijeka; hermits ofSt. William.
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232551
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Publication date:
18.12.2019.
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