Based on the accessible archival material and contemporaneous press, this paper address the consequences of the earthquake that struck the area of Slavonia in 1964 and caused great material damage. ...The introductory part offers an overview of the damage in the Osijek District and Đakovo Municipality, and basic data on the damage to religious buildings. The central part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of the consequences of the earthquake and the reconstruction of the Cathedral of St Peter in Đakovo. The efforts to restore the cathedral and repair the damage suffered in World War II had begun not long before the earthquake struck. The reconstruction process was led by the Cathedral Chapter, the then-established Cathedral Reconstruction Committee, and Bishop Stjepan Bäuerlein, who sent numerous petitions to the state authorities, attempting to secure the financial aid necessary for the reconstruction efforts. Through their diligence, work, and contacts with representatives of the government, and with the help of domestic and foreign charity institutions, they made it possible for the reconstruction work on the cathedral to be successfully completed years later. The numerous donations of believers, priests, and bishops from the country and abroad must also be mentioned. They played an important role in enabling the Cathedral in Đakovo to achieve an appearance worthy of one of the most representative sacral buildings of the 19th century.
U radu se na temelju dostupnoga arhivskoga gradiva i onodobnoga tiska govori o posljedicama potresa koji je 1964. pogodio Slavoniju i prouzročio veliku materijalnu štetu. U uvodnom dijelu daje se ...kratki prikaz štete nastale na području kotara Osijek, tj. općine Đakovo, te osnovni podaci o štetama na vjerskim objektima. Središnji dio rada posvećen je analizi posljedica potresa i procesu obnove katedrale svetoga Petra u Đakovu, koja je tek bila započela s popravljanjem oštećenja nastalih još u Drugom svjetskom ratu. Glavnu riječ tijekom obnove imao je Stolni kaptol i u tu svrhu osnovan Odbor za obnovu katedrale, ali i tadašnji biskup Stjepan Bäuerlein, koji je brojnim predstavkama upućenim državnim vlastima nastojao ishoditi novčanu pomoć za potrebe obnove. U tom je smislu cijeli proces obnove katedrale zanimljivo pratiti i u kontekstu odnosa između Katoličke crkve u Jugoslaviji i komunističkih vlasti, koji su šezdesetih godina bili u znaku popuštanja napetosti.
Based on the accessible archival material and contemporaneous press, this paper address the consequences of the earthquake that struck the area of Slavonia in 1964 and caused great material damage. The introductory part offers an overview of the damage in the Osijek District and Đakovo Municipality, and basic data on the damage to religious buildings. The central part of the paper is devoted to the analysis of the consequences of the earthquake and the reconstruction of
the Cathedral of St Peter in Đakovo. The efforts to restore the cathedral and repair the damage suffered in World War II had begun not long before the earthquake struck. The reconstruction process was led by
the Cathedral Chapter, the then-established Cathedral Reconstruction Committee, and Bishop Stjepan Bäuerlein, who sent numerous petitions to the state authorities, attempting to secure the financial aid necessary for the reconstruction efforts. Through their diligence, work, and contacts with representatives of the government, and with the help of domestic and foreign charity institutions, they made it possible for the
reconstruction work on the cathedral to be successfully completed years
later. The numerous donations of believers, priests, and bishops from the country and abroad must also be mentioned. They played an important role in enabling the Cathedral in Đakovo to achieve an appearance worthy
of one of the most representative sacral buildings of the 19th century.
Based on historical facts, published and unpublished archival materials, this work provides concise analysis of relations between the Church and the state in Croatia between 1945 and 1952,that is ...from the period when the Communist Party of Yugoslavia became the ruling party untilthe break-up of diplomatic relations with the Holy See. Since this was a quite dynamic period interms of socio-political changes, as well as Church-state relations, the article emphasizes onlythose aspects that constitute the foundation of the conflict between the Catholic Church and thecommunist regime such as religious education in schools and catholic clergy’s class associations.Moreover, in the introductory part of the work ideological and political causes of the conflictare briefly explained, as well as relations of the Church and the state in the post-war period witha view to better understanding of the position of the Catholic Church and the overall context of thecatholic religious life in time to come.
The main parameters of this atricle are the events relating to the organization and celebration of the funeral of Ivan Meštrović, the world-renowned Croatian sculptor, who died on January 16, 1962, ...in South Bend (USA). Besides bringing to light differences between the state authorities and the Meštrović family, this work closely examines the relations between the communist government and the Catholic Church, due to which the funeral or a prominent Croatian artist was transformed into a political event.
The Yugoslav communists’ intention to have a complete and radical reckoning with the enemy immediately at the end of World War II was contained in the order of the Interior Ministry of the Federal ...State of Croatia, July 6th 1945, that is of the Interior Ministry of the Democratic Federal Yugoslavia, May 18th 1945, concerning the obliteration of cemeteries and graves of the “occupier” and “enemies of the people” comprising the graves and headstones of German, Italian and Hungarian soldiers and Ustashas, Chetniks and Slovenian Home Guard. Preserved documents, contemporaries of the occurrences and the conditions in the cemeteries give evidence of the systematic implementation of the order to obliterate the cemeteries and graves of the “occupier” and “enemies of the people” in the territory of Slavonia and Syrmia as well.
This paper gives a review of the process of the enforcement of the Land Reform and Colonisation Law on the parish estates and lands of other ecclesiastical institutions in the Đakovo Deanery. The ...introductory part of this work presents the legislation at a federal level and later in the Federal Republic of Croatia, i.e. the People’s Republic of Croatia, as well as its principal regulations. The reaction of the Catholic Church to the law was extremely negative because it was extremely severe in relation to ecclesiastical estates and had the tendency to impoverish the Catholic Church and weaken its infl uence on society. Further, the relation of Bishop Antun Akšamović to the communist government is described in brief, as well as his attitude to the Land Reform and Colonisation Law and his mediating role in securing a more favourable position for the Diocese during implementation of the law. The central section of this work describes the implementation of land reform in estates of nine parishes of the Đakovo Deanery, in estates of the diocese and the estate of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross in Đakovo. All numerical data are illustrated in tabular form at the end of the work.
After the end of World War II the communist government rapidly started to settle property relations and to allocate lands to those cultivating it, to the peasants. For this purpose the Federal Land Reform and Colonisation Law was enacted on August 23, 1945; on November 24 of that same year a corresponding law for the territory of Federal Croatia was passed. Since this law was overly severe to ecclesiastical property and the divestment of land above 10 ha was foreseen by that law, its enforcement further exacerbated the relations between the Catholic Church and the state.
During the hard post-war period, when the Catholic Church, like the majority of the population, was left in dire straits, the land reform dealt a heavy blow from which the Church could not recover for a long period of time. All over the country, including the territory of the Đakovo Deanery, the Catholic Church lost most of its high-quality lands, covered by the land reform, lands that had up to that time been the major source of income for the livelihood of the clergy as well as for church institutions and organizations. The main motive for the communist government to pass most of the laws, such as the Land Reform and Colonisation Law, was the assumption that by being deprived of its material basis the Catholic Church would be frustrated in its intention to continue to be the ideological and moral basis of society. With these laws the communist government affected the Church property and deprived the Church of its main sources of income, paying attention neither to the legally acquired assets or the legal peculiarities of the Catholic Church as a religious, educational and charitable institution.
U radu se u cijelosti u izvornom obliku donosi dokument „Izvještaj o djelovanju i utjecaju klera”, na području tadašnje Općine Đakovo nastao 1955. godine. U Izvještaju se analizira utjecaj Katoličke ...crkve među lokalnim stanovništvom s posebnim naglaskom na određene aspekte vjerske prakse, ponajviše proslave crkvenih godova. Pri tome se kao posebno negativna pojava ističe sudjelovanje članova Saveza komunista u navedenim vjerskim manifestacijama i obredima. Iako opsegom kratak, dokument zorno prikazuje odnos komunističkih vlasti prema Katoličkoj crkvi i metode praćenja njenog djelovanju na lokalnoj razini s ciljem pronalaženja učinkovitih sredstava za suzbijanje njenog utjecaja među stanovništvom.
Nakon što je približila dolazak i prva desetljeća rada časnih sestara sv. Križa u Đakovu autorica je analizirala Zakon o agrarnoj reformi i kolonizaciji na osnovu kojeg su časne sestre neposredno ...nakon završetka Drugog svjetskog rata ostale bez najvećeg dijela svoje imovine.
The work presented the attitude of Dakovo (Bosnian) and Srijem Bishopric that is Bishop Antun Akšamović towards the Law on Agricultural Reform and Colonization. In the introductory part of the work ...there was presented the sequence of bringing the Law in the national level, and than also for the region of Federal Croatia, and its major directives. The reaction of Catholic Church to the aforementioned Law was extremely negative, since the Law was especially hard on Church assets and it was leading to making the Catholic Church poorer and to weakening their influence in the society. In spite of bad relationship between the Catholic Church and the State, Bishop Akšamović managed to provide for the Dakovo Bishopric a privileged status during the implementation of the agricultural reform. That was primarily because of the fact that he was one of rare bishops who were in good relationships with the communist regime and the friend of the chairman of the Committee for Religious Issues - Svetozar Rittig.
U radu je prikazana sudbina daljskog župnika Petra Fischera nakon uspostave komunističkog režima u Jugoslaviji 1945. godine. Budući je bio katolički svećenik njemačkog podrijetla Fischer se našao u ...nemilosti novih vlasti, koje su oštro progonile Folksdojčere i pripadnike Katoličke crkve, o čemu se govori u uvodnom dijelu rada. U nastavku rada prikazano je Fischerovo uhićenje i boravak u Radnom logoru Valpovo, neuspješno iseljenje u Austriju, povratak u Valpovo, te naposlijetku njegov bijeg iz logora. Izuzetno zanimljiv i neobičan spasonosni put daljskog župnika završava u Linzu u Austriji, gdje je, kao najstariji svećenik Đakovačke (Bosanske) i Srijemske biskupije, umro 2007. godine u 96. godini života.
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