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THE HISTORY OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL IN VARAŽDIN IN THE PERIOD OF THE PAULISTS, FROM THE MANUSCRIPT BY KAMILO DOČKAL
Đurđica Cesar
Abstract
The topic of this study is the history of the Grammar School in Varaždin in the period of the Paulists. The author of this study was the canon of the Metropolitan Chapter House in Zagreb and the tounder of the Diocesan Museum of the Zagreb Archbishopric, Msgr. dr. Kamilo Dočkal. Dočkal was also the home prelate of the Pope John XXIII. Dočkal was born in Brodek, Hungary in 1879. Since 1885, he lived with his family in the village of Ivančani near Bjelovar. He finished his primary school and four classes of the Lower Grammar School in Bjelovar. He finished the fifth aand the sixth class in the Gram
mar School in Varaždin. Then, in 1897 he went to Zagreb in order to finish the seventh and the eighth class at the Archbishopric's high school for boys. After the grammar school, where he was an excellent student, he studied at the Theological Faculty in .Zagreb. He took holy orders in 1902. After that he went to the Institute Augustinianum in Vienna, in order to get his doctor's degree. Then he came back to Zagreb, where he was doing a cathecist work. In 1915 he was named the Archiepiscopal secretary and in 1920 the canon and director of the seinary until 1935. Besides all that, he had enough time for lit
erary work, rusic and the Diocesan Museum. The Archbishop dr. Alojzije Stepinac entrusted him with the Diocesan Museum in 1939. Kamilo Dočkal committed himself very much to collecting the materials for the Museum.
This Museum seems to have been his hfe work. He created it aand ran it until his death in 1963.
He also dealt with the study of the church history. He pubhshed a lot of studies on apologetics, church history, art and literature. He made his own bibhography which is kept in the archives of the Archbishopric. During the Second World War, the documents about the Paulists and teir monasteries were sent back from Pest. Dočkal had studied these documents for a few years. Then he wrote an extensive study enntitled "The Materials for the History of the Paulist Monasteries in Croatia". The manuscript was given to JAZU (The Yugoslav Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1954 in order to be
printed, but it was not possible to do that then. A part of the study was dedicated to the activity of the Paulists in Varaždin. In the chapter entitled "The Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Varaždin" he also described the Paulist activities at the Grammar School in Varaždin.
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Publication date:
5.12.1998.
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