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TrpimirVedriš
Forgotten martyrs?
The martyrdom of St. Nikolas Tavilić and companions
Book launch:
The Saints of Rome: Diffusion and Reception from late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. Ed. By Trpimir Vedriš, Gábor Klaniczay, Dorottya Uhrin. Zagreb 2021.
Presented by Dávid Falvay
November 21, 2022
Monday
5 pm
Venue: ELTE Szekfű Gyula Könyvtár 1088 Bp. Múzeum krt. 6-8. I. 115. Zoom link:
https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/93352030077?pwd=blZPYU1tT1NjeFEyOGt3RHFUeXdTUT09
Meeting ID: 933 5203 0077
Passcode: 785115
Forgotten martyrs? The martyrdom of St. Nikolas Tavilić and companions – state of research and analysis of contemporary reception
The canonization, or rather the circumstances of the beatification and canonization, of Nicholas Tavilić as the “first Croatian saint” is an interesting phenomenon in itself. Namely, the specific Croatian dimension of his cult in (medieval) Šibenik offers interesting possibilities for researching the formation of a cult over a long period. The circumstances of the death of “Nicholas and his companions” are well documented and the basic sources, primarily in the context of the canonization process, have been carefully processed and evaluated. However, the series of circumstances of the “afterlife” of the Franciscan group – both in terms of local and European reception – offers plenty of material for analysis that has not been fully evaluated. Positioning with the help of recent literature the martyrdom of St. Nikola Tavilić and his colleagues in the historical context (sub specie of the articulation of the concept of martyrdom within the Franciscan order in the 14th century), the purpose of this presentation is, on the one hand, to critically evaluate recently published works on the subject (such as Christopher McEvitt’s The Martyrdom of the Franciscans) and on the other hand, to point out the research potential of the considered corpus. The specific Franciscan understanding of martyrdom by Muslims opens up a view of the complex world of late medieval Franciscan spirituality, crisis, and fundamental values. From the Croatian perspective (and perhaps Hungarian also), it seems that the case of the martyrdom of four Franciscans in Jerusalem in 1391 went unnoticed as an extremely interesting and, in the European context of the time, important event.
