Abbey in Rizinice
The first Benedictine monastery which was founded on the territory of Croatia, that we can confirm with certainty, was the monastery that was built in 852 by Duke Trpimir in Rižinice in Solin, not far from his court in Klis at the location of Rupotina, on the slope of the Kozjak hill. A fragment of […]
St Ambrose in Nin
DESCRIPTION AND FORMAL ANALYSIS Next to the city gates of Nin was the Benedictine monastery of St. Ambrose. During the demolition of the medieval church of St. Michael, which was located on the site of a Roman temple, fragments of the architrave of the altar rail were found, decorated with braided ornamentation and with a […]
Monastery of St. Chrysogonus
DESCRIPTION AND FORMAL ANALYSIS The monastery of St. Crysogonus (Krševan) emerged next to the church of St. Chryosgonus, which was built to honour the earthly remains of this martyr, which according to legend were brought to Zadar from the town next to Aquileia as early as 649. The first mention of this monastery is found […]
Benedictine Monastery of St. Mary on Lokrum
DESCRIPTION AND FORMAL ANALYSIS Before the arrival of the Benedictines, hermits lived in Lokrum according to the rule of St. Basil. The Lokrum Abbey was officially founded in 1023. Dubrovnik Archbishop Vital and the city prior asked the Benedictine Peter Gučetić, from the St. Mary Abbey on the island of Tremita in the southern Italian […]
St. Stephen under the Pines in Split
DESCRIPTION AND FORMAL ANALYSIS The abbey of St. Stephen is located on the Sustipan peninsula near the city walls of Split. It cannot be determined with certainty when it was founded. According to some historians, the abbey existed as early as the ninth century or the tenth at the latest, but everyone agrees that it […]