Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.34075/cs.55.2.6
Establishment and Work of the Crusaders Organization in Croatia (1930-1945)
Zdravko Matić
orcid.org/0000-0003-0552-9926
; Croatian Military Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman” University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Damir Stručić
; Croatian Military Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman” University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
After the dictatorship of King Aleksandar Karađorđević on January 6 and the ban on the Croatian Eagle Alliance, the Crusaders Organization was founded as early as in 1930, based on the principles of the Apostolate of Prayer, i.e. its branch for young people called Croisade Eucharistique, introduced and implemented in Orlovstvo (Eaglehood) by Dr Ivan Merz in 1923.
On February 5, 1936, the Archbishop of Zagreb, Coadjutor Alojzije Stepinac, founded the Diocesan Council of Catholic Action, which operated in accordance with the Rules of Catholic Action. The Crusaders Organization formally operated until July 1945, when the Communists came to power and they would cease their work. They were dissolved personally by Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac in agreement with the leadership of the Catholic Action, to which the Crusaders also belonged.
Keywords
Crusaders; Catholic organizations; leadership; Protulipac; Stepinac; persecutions
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Publication date:
22.7.2020.
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