Prethodno priopćenje
ON THE JOURNEY TO THE HOLY LAND – PILGRIMAGES TO JERUSALEM (FOLLOWING THE TRACES FROM SEVERAL TESTAMENTS OF THE CROATIAN EMIGRANTS IN VENICE 15TH – 16TH CENTURIES)
Lovorka ČORALIĆ
Sažetak
Pilgrimages and pilgrims' journeys were an important component of the religious life of the Croatian emigrants in Venice during the previous centuries. The analysis of the extant documents (mostly testaments) has revealed that the most frequent destinations of the
Croatian pilgrimages from Venice were Italian sanctuaries (Loreto, Assisi, Rome, Padua etc.). In this article author examines four testaments of the Croatian emigrants that were written in the period between 1485 and 1554. All of them contain information about the
most complex pilgrims' voyage – journey to Christ's grave in the Holy Land. This destination, because of its long-distance, was a rather rare choice regarding the pilgrimages that are mentioned in the testaments of the Croatian emigrants in Venice. Still, exactly because of this rarity, such pilgrimages are a great topic for investigation. Therefore, author thoroughly examines each of the above-mentioned four testaments, and reveals valuable information
regarding the economic power of this small group of Croatian emigrants, which could be regarded – because of their possessions – as a wealthier part of the Croatian community in Venice. At the end, author concludes that these examples, though rather rare, witness about the Croatian component in the history of Venice, as well as about variety of communications along the Adriatic and Mediterranean in the past times.
Ključne riječi
Venice; Venetian Republic; migrations; pilgrimages; Jerusalem; ecclesiastical history; early modern period
Hrčak ID:
52978
URI
Datum izdavanja:
25.12.2009.
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