Original scientific paper

The Votive Offerings of Saint Fosca and Health

Željko Dugac ; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, The Division for the History of Medical Sciences, zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The paper deals with the votive offerings brought by Istrians to the church of St. Fosca near the village of Batvači (Vodnjan). They were brought in connection to certain diseases or as a gratitude for recovery. Certain parts of clothes and implement used in everyday work, or implement which caused injury, were given as the votive offerings. Such parts of clothing represented particular parts of body and its illnesses.

Keywords

votive oferings; Saint Fosca; Batvač; Istria; helth

Hrčak ID:

48537

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/48537

Publication date:

2.2.2002.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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