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INVENTORY FATE OF THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN SENJ
Juraj Lokmer
; Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
In 1804, Ivan Krstitelj Ježić the bishop of Senj-Modruša founded
Theological seminary and High school of theology. This High
school was operating, with short breaks (1919-1933), for a century
and a half as the only one in the North Adriatic till 1940. The institution
was located in the building of the old Franciscan monastery.
In 1816, after the fire in 1810, the building was renewed and furnished.
The bishop Dr. Antun Maurović had the building thoroughly
renewed by the end of XIX century. On the eve of the second World
War, the bishop Dr. Viktor Burić closed the institution in 1940. In the
II World War, during the bombing of the town, the building, furniture
and the library were ruined. After 1945 the building of the Seminary
was nationalized and since then has been used to locate municipal
authorities and catering necessities. The inventory has partly been
saved. The most valuable part of the inventory is the picture of the
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin, painted in oil, in the
late baroque style by an unknown artist from the north-west continental
part of Croatia or Slovenia. The benches in the cathedral in the
classicistic profile are part of the seminary inventory. The sculptures,
so called “tirolci” are documents of the time when the seminary was
operating. The sculpture of Saint Catherine of Siena belonged most
probably to the seminary too; it can be attributed to the older period,
when Paulist carpenter-carving workshop was operating in Senj. In
the cloister – seminary yard, there is a stone pedestal with the Latin
text from 1875, where stood the statue of the Immaculate Conception
of Mary. There is also a lime-tree with a huge trunk and crown,
over 150 years old that can be considered the monument of the natural
and cultural-historical heritage.
Ključne riječi
Theological seminary; Senj; Inventory; pictures; sculptures; benches; stone monuments; lime-tree
Hrčak ID:
220465
URI
Datum izdavanja:
3.12.2007.
Posjeta: 734 *