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About Beginnings of the Franciscan Monastery in Sveta Gorica
Branimir Brgles
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sveta Gorica (Sanctus monticulous, Holy mountain), in present-day settlement Marija Gorica, was founded in the sixteenth century. The oldest attestation of the church and the Franciscan monastery, which at first was dedicated to St Peter apostle, was in the first half of the sixteenth century. Although we can determine quite precisely when the monastery appears in historical sources for the first time, there is no sufficient data to determine when it was constructed. The oldest written mention of the church can be found in a document written in 1527. This document is actually a request from Stephen Deshaz, the owner of the Susedgrad-Stubica estate (where the monastery was located). Desha wrote to his sovereign Ferdinand Habsburg seeking permission to build the monastery. As Deshaz wrote in his letter, the monastery was intended for housing Franciscan monks, refugees from the Ottoman Bosnia. Historical sources and Franciscan chronicles (Vigilius Greiderer, Franciscus Gonzaga) do not offer an unequivocal answer to the question of when did Deshaz start building the monastery. Actually, none of the chronicles or the historical sources offer enough data to conclude where exactly the Franciscans escaped from. We know they left Bosnia, but from which of the several possible pre-Ottoman Franciscan monasteries in Bosnia, still remains unanswered. In fact, several different sources, analyzed in the article, are in contradiction. These facts have puzzled the Croatian cultural public and scholars in the past. The history of the Franciscan monastery in Marija Gorica is in close relation to a more comprehensive problem of migrations from the east and the south of the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Ottoman conquest of the eastern parts of the Hungarian and Croatian Kingdom caused a massive demographic change. Immigrants from these areas, escaping Ottoman conquest, migrated towards the north and west. In the Susedgrad Stubica estate, they populated the western parts, between the rivers Sava, Sutla, and Krapina. The abovementioned immigrants spoke the ikavian-čakavian dialect (during the time, they accepted kaykavian elements but kept the ikavian reflex of jat, so today they are called kaykavian-ikavian speakers). These dialectal features are important for the research of pre-modern migrations because sixteenth century written historical sources very rarely mention information concerning that topic. According to the popular legend, which is corroborated in some details by historical sources, the immigrants were led by the Franciscans of Provincia Bosniae Croatiae, carrying with them a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary. Linguistic research of bynames and other onomastics material confirms that during the 1530s parts of the Susedgrad estate were populated by immigrants originating from the area of present-day Banovina and Pounje.
Ključne riječi
Franciscans; Marija Gorica; migrations; early modern time; estate ofSusedgrad.
Hrčak ID:
219487
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Datum izdavanja:
23.12.2018.
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