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Anali Zavoda za povijesne znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti u Dubrovniku, No. 58, 2020.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21857/mwo1vcjnvy

Croatian-Serbian Relations in the Light of the Celebration of the Feast of St. Blaise in Dubrovnik (1891-1914)

Barabara Đurasović orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-8165-0421 ; Sveučilište Libertas

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Abstract

The article highlights an attempt of the Serb-Catholics in Dubrovnik to influence the celebration of the Day of St. Blaise, patron of Dubrovnik. The chronology of Croatian-Serbian relations and the ideological-political influences on the celebration of the Dubrovnik patron for the period 1892-1914 have been traced in the articles published in the political newspapers Crvena Hrvatska (1891-1914) and Dubrovnik (1892-1914), from 1905 on in Prava Crvena Hrvatska (1905-1918), as well as in the minutes of the Municipal Council of Dubrovnik.
Two key periods may be distinguished in this comprehensive analysis. While forming the local government with the autonomists until 1899, the Serbs of Dubrovnik tried to impose an ideological code of their Serb-Catholic movement on the Feast of St. Blaise. During the celebration of St. Blaise’s Day, the city band performed Serbian marching tunes, Croatian flags were destroyed and coats of arms removed, and the traditional invitation ceremony to this solemn celebration was disrupted.
With the change of local government in favour of Croatian political parties, srbokatolici launched recurrent accusations, claiming that they were excluded from the celebration of the city feast. In order to support their ideological positions, they called upon Pax Ragusina, according to which ‟peace, equality and pardon” ruled in Dubrovnik during the Feast of St. Blaise. This research has established that the mentioned concept should primarily be viewed as result of Serbian misinterpretation, and not a historical fact from the time of the Dubrovnik Republic.

Keywords

national identity; Serb-Catholics; Saint Blaise; patron of Dubrovnik; Dubrovnik political newspapers; Crvena Hrvatska; Dubrovnik; Prava Crvena Hrvatska

Hrčak ID:

247055

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/247055

Publication date:

20.11.2020.

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