Franciscan Province of Dalmatia
The Franciscan Province of St. Jerome (Croatian: Franjevačka provincija Svetog Jeronima) is a Croatian province of the Order of Friars Minor which is based in Zadar and active in Istria and Dalmatia.
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The province was founded in the Croatian lands in the Middle Ages, and its original seal dates from 1393.[1] Notable members have included Nicholas Tavelic[1] and Sebastijan Slade.[2]
In 1925, they sent a friar to the United States to aid the Croatian immigrant community, and he was stationed at Millvale, Pennsylvania at the St. Nicholas Croatian Church; later another friar was sent to McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In 1951, they purchased a property in Washington, D.C., and Ivan Meštrović donated the St. Jerome the Priest monument for the occasion.[3]
They run 24 monasteries, including the Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi in Zadar and that of Our Lady of Angels near Orebić.[4]
Conventuals
There are two eponymous but separate Provinces of the Order of Conventual Franciscans [5] and of the friars of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance in the same territory.[3]
References
- "Tko smo mi" [Who are we] (in Croatian). Franciscan Province of St. Jerome. 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- "Istaknuti Franjevci - Velikani provincije" [Distinguished Franciscans - Great men of the Province] (in Croatian). Franciscan Province of St. Jerome. 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- "The history of the Province of St. Jerome, Croatia". franciscanfriarstor.com. Province of the Immaculate Conception, Third Order Regular Franciscans. Archived from the original on 2013-12-15. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- "Samostani" [Monasteries] (in Croatian). Franciscan Province of St. Jerome. 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- "Provincija sv. Jeronima franjevaca konventualaca" (in Croatian). Retrieved 2012-03-16.