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THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH S. HELIE DE ANTIBARO
Savo MARKOVIĆ
; Barska plovidba, Bar
Sažetak
On the basis of the archival sources and literature, author discusses historical chronology of the collegiate church of St Elias in Bar, which was built probably in the first half of the fourteenth century. Distinguished for its elegant construction, as evidenced by the
archbishop of Bar Andrija Zmajević, the church served as collegiate until the middle of the seventeenth century, and later for some time as the cathedral church of Bar. Baroque erudite seemingly incidentally recorded that, along with some other sanctuaries, the church
of St Elias stood out, especially if compared with many other chapels in the town’s fortifications. The preserved apostolic visitations show not only material circumstances of the church, but they also reflect spiritual state of the believers. The chapter of the collegiate
church, dedicated to the Old Testament prophet, for several centuries influenced election of the archbishops of Bar, as well as they had a prominent role in religious life of the town. In a dramatic period of its function as cathedral church, it was equipped with only three pairs of old paraments, chalice and the receptacle of the most Holy Sacrament. The church of St Elias was in use until the arrival of the Venetian general governor Leonardo Foscolo, who in January 1649, during the Cretan War (1645-1669), unsuccessfully attacked
Bar. Namely, from the mid-seventeenth century its liturgical functions were ceased, and, consequently, toponomastic testimonies have disappeared. In the following times started a period of “erasing” the memory on the shrine from the history of the town. Only
the future researches could reveal new facts to the knowledge regarding the location of the church, its typological characteristics and correlation with other urban foci of social and religious life.
Ključne riječi
Bar; the collegiate church of St Elias; Middle Ages; early Modern period; visitations
Hrčak ID:
176465
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Datum izdavanja:
22.12.2016.
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