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The Second Coming of the Jesuits to Southern Croatia (Part III) Activities in Split and small missionary posts
Valentin Miklobušec
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For the entire century following the re-establishment of the Society of Jesus (1814) the order was severely persecuted in one country after the other; however, it was also this particular century which in fact marked the flourishing of the order. Although the coastal belt of the Croatian ethnic lands was partially under Austrian rule (Austrian Dalmatia) and partially under Croatian rule, this entire area including the former Republic of Dubrovnik belonged to the Venetian province of the Society of Jesus called the Illyrian-Dalmatian mission, which was established for the purpose of working with the Croatian populace. Croats comprised the majority in all villages and often in cities as well, their predominance, however, bringing with it no political influence. The centre of the mission was located firstly in Dubrovnik, then later, as of January 1, 1879, in Split. The Jesuits of the Venetian province who laboured on the Croatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea as popular missionaries, though of Italian origin, learned the Croatian language extremely well and grew to love the Croatian people. Soon, Croatian young men from the region began to enter the society, that is they entered the priesthood, and thus missionary activity increased and spread through Croatian-speaking lands far and wide.
Some Jesuit priests fled to the Croatian Coast of the Adriatic Sea in 1866 due to persecutions in Veneto and Lombardy. They were welcomed by the Croatian Bishops who entrusted to them various ministries. These Jesuits became parish priests in Stravča and Opuzen, and were given a small monastery with a church in Veli Lošinj, which enabled them to engage in pastoral activity and in this way to be of assistance to the parish priest.
Kraljevica was a case in itself. The Jesuit priests arrived in this small coastal town in the North of Croatia in 1893 and stayed until 1910. Here they took charge of a college, or rather a house for the education of young religious (novices, orators and philosophers) who were compelled to undertake their studies outside of Croatia, due to the volatile political situation in their homeland, primarily in the Tyrol, then in France, Spain and finally in Kraljevica. In return for the hospitality received, they fostered friendly relations with their hosts in foreign lands and retained fond memories of one another.
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15.12.2006.
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