Review article
Summary: The 1855 cholera outbreak in Baška recounted in two different ways
Josip Tomašić
Abstract
Marko Šorić, a long-time sacristan from Baška, left behind two descriptions of the raging cholera outbreak in Baška in 1855. The disease first broke out in Baška, and later spread to the rest of the island of Krk. The highest number of cholera victims on the entire island was in Baška. In his manuscript, which transcriber Antun Hrabrić calls the ‘Baška Chronicle’, Šorić described the spread of the disease from the standpoint of his cousin, the priest Frane Šorić, who was a chaplain in Baška at the time who visited the sick, contracted and then died of cholera. In this work, he described how the people prayed to Our Lady of Gorica to end the disease. Šorić also wrote about the same outbreak in a special, shorter article. In it, he described how St. John the Baptist appeared to a gravedigger. The saint asked for the restoration of the dilapidated church in the cemetery dedicated to him. After the parish priest vowed to do so, the illness ceased.
Keywords
cholera; Baška; 1855; history; Marko Šorić
Hrčak ID:
284377
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Publication date:
11.11.2021.
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