Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.24

A Paternoster counter from Rudina

Petar Sekulić orcid.org/0000-0001-5002-3022
Ana Azinović Bebek orcid.org/0000-0002-2063-6466
Mihael Golubić

Abstract

During revision excavations of the Benedictine Abbey of Saint
Michael the Archangel, in Rudina in 2019, a preserved counter
was discovered, the oldest known in Croatia, which can be dated
to the transition from the 14th century to the 15th. The remains of
the counter were discovered with a lead bull of Pope Boniface
IX, alongside the remains of an older woman buried in a brick
tomb in the southern extension to the abbey church. With a
certain caution, and on the basis of the results of anthropological
analysis, written sources and discovered movable finds, we
can conclude that the remains belong to Margaret, a member
of the Podversai (Podvrški) noble family, to whom, in 1397, Pope
Boniface IX issued a document unknown to us today.

Keywords

Rudina, Benedictine Abbey of Saint Michael the Archangel, Late Middle Ages, Podversai, Paternoster, counter, rosary, conservation and restoration

Hrčak ID:

266467

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/266467

Publication date:

6.12.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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