Ivan Oreskovic, Ivo, as we all called him, was born in 1954 in Čovići near Otočac in Lika, and died in 2020 in Drenova, where he was buried in the Old cemetery of Drenova. In 1980, with his wife Zdenko, he moved to Drenovo, where he bought land for the construction of a house on Mugarić, and lived with his family on Orešje and in Brdina Street until the construction. Having built the ground floor of the house with the help of several friends, the Orešković family has also moved since 1990; wife Zdenka, daughter Sanja, son Tomislav and Ivo live at Mugarićka 6.
He worked in the factory "Rikard Benčić" as a turner, and by the way studied extraordinarily at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka and in 1983 acquired the title of professor of industrial pedagogy.
Founding of DVD Drenova
In 1985, an initial committee of 11 members, including Ivo, started the initiative and on 16 November of the same year, at the founding assembly held in the Cultural Centre in Lokva, they founded the Drenova Volunteer Fire Brigade - DVD Drenova, of which Ivo was later president.
Also, with two other like-minded people, he founded the Drenova Society of Voluntary Blood Donors and became a donor himself.
When the idea of founding a choir on Drenova was born, as the president of the time, he stated that the Statute of DVD Drenova enabled the functioning of cultural sections, and so his great merit began with the work of the Mixed Choir DVD Drenova, which at that time also had exercises in the DVD space. The newly founded choir also had its first official performance at the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of DVD on November 19, 1985, held at the Fran Franković Elementary School.
Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of DVD Drenova 19. 11/2005 Ivo at the table, right
Founder of the music quintet “Rotirka band“ who, with his music, entertained many gatherings of Drenova firefighters, played often for his “goose”, and I will never forget when, for the celebration of St. George’s Day, on 21 April 2012, together with the Drenova singing choir, they performed in front of a crowded auditorium in the Dom na Lokva.
"Vesele rotirke" 21.4.2012. in Dom na Lokva. Ivo the first right
Tambours that our museum has in its display, apparently dating back to the age after 1. of the World War. We know that with the founding of the Drenova Pučka Reading Room in 1908, the Drenovčan tamburitza choir was founded, whose members played on their own instruments. Dušan Štefan He saved the tambourines and handed them over after a few years. Ivo Oreskovic who was then the president of the local community of Drenova. Ivo kept them for years in the boiler room of the Local Committee, to give them to our museum immediately after its founding.
Short biography
Pok. Ivan Oreskovic was employed in the City of Rijeka from January 1994 until the end of 2019 when he retired. He worked in the Department of City Self-Government and Administration, the Department of the City Administration for the Utilities System and in the Department of the City Administration for Asset Management in the following jobs:
Referent for local self-government from 1.1.1994. to 31.3.1994.
City Revenue Inspector from 1.4.1994 to 31.7.1996
Leading associate for the control of the use of living space from 1.8.1996. to 30.11.1997.
Independent associate main municipal guard from 1.12.1997. to 3.2.2019.
Senior expert associate 1 – scout since 4.2.2019 31/12/2019
Secretary of the Local Communities of the Municipality of Rijeka
President of the Trade Union from 2015 until his retirement in 2019.
At the end of the conversation with Zdenko and Sanja, I was deeply touched by his daughter's statement:
When I think of my late father, the first thing I feel is pride and gratitude. Then comes love and of course sadness, which the imminent death took prematurely.
Many streets on Drenova are named after toponyms - Frkaševo, Škudarevo, Brca and the like, in addition to the names of the deserving Drenovci. However, one address stands out - Kućina (some write Kučina incorrectly), and it was named after an old house that was probably larger than the others during that time, and after Chakavian as a large house got the name Kućina. The remains of the house can still be seen opposite the entrance to the parking lot of the Central Cemetery, and the street is below the Sportsbook and the market "Barby".
Street Kućina
Our excellent painter and connoisseur of the Drenov past, Alberto Mihich, once worked in the factory ‘Rikard Benčić’. Here he founded and ran an art section that often organized exhibitions. In 1976, one of these exhibitions featured his painting of the House as he remembered it. The original of the painting is in color on the cover (it is computer-coloured), oil on canvas, and the photo is black/white.
Black and white photo of Bertić's painting
Today's appearance of the house from the picture
The house was also mentioned by Ivo Grohovac in the article "How she became a Škurinja" written in 1913.
It is interesting that at the same time there was a house that the people of Drenovci called House, probably because it was small compared to the others. The late Aldo Štefan who lived there was called Aldo z kucica. The house still exists today, it is located next to a cafe in the parking lot of the Central Cemetery. It has recently been completely renovated and here it is in the picture.
In the DCD Facebook group of our Drenova Social Center, Damir Medved published comparative pictures of Grohov once and today where it is nice to see how there used to be vineyards and cultivated areas around Grohovo that are now neglected and overgrown with forest.
In the above paintings, the difference between the era of dam construction (1964-1966) and today's era can be beautifully seen.
I've known the goddess for a long time. Josip Šikić, a Grohov resident who confirmed to me in a conversation that Grohovo used to live in a really different way and that Grohovo was surrounded by vineyards and gardens. We also know about the mills and columns that have also disappeared. Mr. Šikić tells me how vineyards existed on both sides of today's Lake Valići and how they flourished beautifully thanks to loam, which is a keeper of moisture that corresponds to the vine. These were not large vineyards, but smaller, drywalled areas where mostly white wine with some red wine was grown. Traces of these drywalls can still be found today. There, of course, vegetables were also grown for daily nutrition, and whoever had more wore it was sold on a plot in Rijeka.
It's Mr. Doyle's story. Sikic said that there were not as many vineyards as there were around Grohovo, around Pasac, in Šćitari on the slopes of Katarina in those more ancient times, neither on Grobnišćina nor around Kastav. The quantities of wine produced by the owners of the vineyards were not much more significant. Mostly for home use, and something was known to be sold. Since at that time there was not yet any technology and preparations that could maintain the quality of the wine, when the barrel was opened, it took relatively quickly that wine and consumed it so that it would not spoil. For this purpose, ‘Matice’ was organised. In Zlatan Nadvornik’s book ‘Croatian wines, wine customs, wine drinks and wine ceremonies’, the author writes:
The Book of Zlatan Nadvornik
Text from the Book of Matica
Mr. Sikic told me that in Grohovo it was a little different. Namely, the order was agreed between the winegrowers. And just as Nadvornik says, at the agreed time the villagers gathered at a certain landlord, the barrel would open, drink, cheer, and sell something. These were great events during those times, and they could take up to two days at a landlord's house. Those who were a little thirsty, who stayed overnight, would sleep in the hayloft, but the boss would take away "fajerc and fuminants" from everyone beforehand (as Mr Šikić tells me) so that there would be no fire if they wanted to light a cigarette in the way they were "happy". Basically – the barrel would be emptied!
Josip's prano did not maintain nuts because it produced high-quality wine that would be sold quickly. An interesting detail was pointed out by Mr. It's a shikic. Namely, Grohovčani was the first to start preparing quality wine in (as he says) boutiques. In fact, it was something similar to today's champagne, and he still has a device somewhere to plug those boutiques. A painting also provided to me by Mr. Gardner. Šikić shows the nut from 1958 (judging by the inscription on the back).
The nut in Grohovo in 1958
I don't know which boss.
In addition to selling wine and vegetables, many Grohovci were butchers, and as mentioned above Grohovo was also known for its mills and columns on a dug-out canal – the Rječina branch. With the development of industry and the possibility of profit in Rijeka, vineyards were neglected and winemaking gradually disappeared.
At the end of Ivana Žorža Street towards Škurinje, the Orlando Kučića Street begins on the left and connects to the Kućički put.
Who Orlando Kučić was told to me by his now-deceased sister, Mrs. It's Nives Kucic. We met at the Drenova Retirement Club and I must say that with considerable suspicion she agreed to answer my questions about her brother because, as she said, these are things and times that are little talked about today.
Orlando, standing third from left
Orlando above the teacher
But she opened her soul a little bit and said:
Orlando was a year younger than her, born on November 19, 1929. They lived on Boka, and went to school at the Drenova Old School. At the beginning of 1944, Orlando, along with several Drenov boys, one might say, went, as Nives says, into the woods. By all accounts, Ivan Žorž was in the same group. Orlando was a courier and carried information between bases that Nives said had numbers.
One night he helped Orlando carry the wounded. Tired, fell asleep on a wet moss. Soon, unfortunately, he fell ill – he got an inflammation of the bruise, a plaurita as Nives says. My mother cooked hot soup every day, but it didn't help. At the hospital, the Germans asked him to be delivered to them on three occasions with the intention of transporting him to Dachau, but the doctor did not allow him, noting that he was too weak to be transported and that his health condition was critical anyway. He died in the hospital as a boy, at the age of 15. He was buried in the old cemetery of Drenova.
Nives Kučić
And this is how Spartac Črnjarić was told by his mother Agricola, born on Drenova in 1924, so he sent me an e-mail:
Mat said to me:
One Sunday, young men from about 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka.
Orlando was ill and died. My mat was at the funeral.
Ivana Žorža Street starts from the stairs opposite the church on Donja Drenova and descends all the way to Ivo Lola Ribara Street and is one of the longest Drenovska streets.
With parents, Stanislava-Slava and Josip-Pepin Žorž
Ivan Žorž, Nini as he is remembered today by members of the Drenov family Žorž, was born on July 10, 1926 on Drenova. How and when he got involved in the defense of his homeland and his Drenova, unfortunately we do not know, and neither do his own, still alive Žorževi. On the web address Archives of Arolsen On September 25, 1944, he was brought to Dachau concentration camp and held under prisoner number 111417. Less than a month after his arrival in Dachau, he was relocated on 22 October to the Neuengamme Camp from Hamburg, from where he never returned.
Documents from KL Dachau
Transcription into the database
I will repeat here what I wrote in the article about Orlando Kučić:
Spartaco Črnjarić, my colleague and friend, sent me an e-mail that his mother, Drenovčanka Agricola Črnjarić, told him:
Mat said to me: On Sunday, young men from approx. 16 flights from Dolnja Drenova go to Lokva -Tito Francetić, Ferruccio Superina, Orlando Kučić and Ivan Žorž. On Lokve they wanted partisans for Učka. Mat says Žoržu doesn't even have a real name Ivan (thinking probably Nina, as they called him). His parents were on the border, his father was a stonemason, he would have known more than them to lead Milivoj Brozina who is his and nan's seed .
Spartaco Črnjarić
Interestingly, the Germans kept very detailed documentation of the inmates. For example, for Ivan, it is stated in one document that he had 850 Italian lira upon his arrival. However, no document mentions the cause or method of death, both for Ivan and for all the inmates.
Transport Liste Dachau – Neuengamme (John 1474)
Archives of Arolsen – The International Centre for Nazi Persecution, formerly the International Search Service (ITS), is an internationally run centre for documentation, information and research on Nazi persecution, forced labour and the Holocaust in Nazi Germany and its occupied regions. The archive contains about 30 million documents from concentration camps, details of forced labor and files on exiled persons. The ITS preserves the original documents and sheds light on the fate of those persecuted by the Nazis. The archives have been available to researchers since 2007. May 2019 The Centre uploaded around 13 million documents and made them available to the public online. The archives are currently digitized and transcribed via the Zooniverse crowdsourcing platform. As of July 2020, around 27% The archive has been copied.
The street that goes uphill from the cross in Benaši towards Tonići and Kablari brings me Bruno Francetić.
On the Internet address of the City of Rijeka you will find information on the origin of street names, so for Bruno Francetić says:
Bruno Francetić (Rijeka, 1921) – Kamenjak, 1942) – a Croatian anti-fafist and prominent fighter for workers’ rights. He was a member of the Drenova Skojevska Group.
The Society Without Borders The text of mrs. Elda Bariša Bruno was a barba, my mother's brother. Mrs. Elda remembers Bruno's departure to the Partisans and writes:
And my barba is a scarf for your partisans. It was a dream that day to go up to none and hear the remorse of the bastard and the bastard. When the body's dream starts to come in, the barba is the oprl of the door and on the back I told the nonotu “I will ren and I will never come out again”. In 1942 the first fighter died, Bruno Francetić is called our street after the chem.
A few details of his death can be found in the text published by the ‘Lokalpatrioti Rijeka’ group, which says about themselves:
“Lokalpatrioti Rijeka” is a place that gathers lovers of the city of Rijeka and the Primorje-Gorski Kotar region! It deals with the preservation of Rijeka's identity and multiculturalism as its main value. An independent site primarily oriented to the work of the forum that follows all major events in the city of Rijeka and our region and reveals our history.
Extract from the above text:
On July 5, 1942, Commander 2 was killed. Comrade Nikola Car - Crni Miko of the Primorje-Gorski Kotar Partisan Detachment. On that day, an ambush was set up on Louisiana between Kamenjak and Grobnik in the strength of 140 partisans.... In this action, a comrade was killed next to the commandant of the squadron. Bruno Francetić.
Mrs. Florrick. Elda said the Italians buried all those killed in the action in a common grave in Kozala Cemetery.
Bruno was the first Italian partisan to die and probably the first Italian partisan to die.
If you are heading towards the church from the direction of the town of Drenovski, at the ‘Romano’ café on the left is Stanko Frankovića Street, which cuts down Ivana Žorža Street and extends all the way to Žminj. In this very busy street there is a kindergarten, a market "Brodokomerca", a furniture store and, interestingly, two hairdressing salons!
Stanko Franković, after whom this important street bears its name, was born on September 8, 1919 on Drena as the ninth of ten children of Ivan Franković and Marija born Štefan and the nephew of professor Fran Franković. Early in 1942, he joined the liberation movement, as did many young people from Drenovci.
In the "Zbornik Kastavština" No. 1 from 1978, Mr. Vilim Štefan, in the text "Young Kastav area in the People's Revolution", states, inter alia:
Skojevska grupa Drenova:
Vilim Štefan, Valter Francetić, Bruno Francetić, Stanko Franković, Vence Mihić and Stanko Hlača.
According to Stanko's cousin and cousin who live on Lokva, he died on September 1, 1942 in Tuhobić when their group was surrounded by Italian soldiers.
From Kastav Collection No.1
In the online list of the origin of the name of the street Rijeka, it is stated that he died in the area of Pakleno below Obruč, and the dates coincide.
Sergio Turconi, one of the most reliable and respectable names that the Italian community of Rijeka could boast in the field of literary criticism, was born in Caronno Petrusella near the town of Varese in 1928, and died on Drena in 2019. He arrived in Rijeka in the second half of 1946 to participate in the construction of socialism in society with Alessandro Damiani i Giacomo Scottie. All three came from Italy, at short intervals from each other and from different regions, and all three started working in EDIT publications, starting with “La Voce del Popolo“, where Turconi was the first editor, and later other publications. Turconi has always been involved in the cultural sector mainly as a literary and historical critic of literature.
La Battana Quarterly Promoter for Culture
He should also be remembered as a promoter, together with Luciano Giuricino, the two-week ‘Via Giovanili’ and the three-month period for culture ’La Battana“, of which he was editor-in-chief from 1964 to 1989, together with Eros Sequi and Lucifer Martini. He remained attached to the Italian Community even when he left Rijeka for Belgrade at the beginning of the 1960s, where he was a correspondent ’La Voce’ and where he graduated and obtained his doctorate with the dissertation “Italian Neorealist Poetry” (1970). Later, he was a lecturer at the Department of Italian Studies at the Faculty of Philology of the University in the capital of Yugoslavia, in that position until his retirement in 1997. For many years he travelled between Belgrade and Istria, making a valuable contribution to the creation of new pages of literature by Italians of these countries. In 2014, he returned from Belgrade to Rijeka on Drenovo, where he spent the last years of his life.
For decades he was engaged with “La Battana” in the organization of conferences of writers at the international level and during that time worked on the survival and growth of literature in the ranks of the Italian community of Istria and Kvarner. He was, along with Giacomo Scotti, the last survivor of the second generation of our writers. After Ramous, Sequi and Martini, three of Italian descent, Turconi was the first in the three that also included Damiani and Scotty.
Commitment to the affirmation of Italian literature (CNI)
There is no periodic publication of EDIT, from daily newspapers to journals that have entered its history, on whose pages Turconi's texts do not meet. We should not forget its important role at the international conferences of critics and historians of literature for the affirmation of literary creativity of the CNI.
Turconi has always preferred literary criticism and essayism over his artistic work. His main researches are the study of neorealist cinema (‘Neorealism’, Nolit, Belgrade, 1961) and literary criticism entitled ‘Italian neorealist poetry’ (Mursia, Milan, 1977). Only a few times he devoted literature to personal writings. Among his essays, it is worth noting the “Literature of Italians in Yugoslavia and its Emigrants”, in the “Literatures of Emigration” (prepared by Jean-Jacques Marchand, Issues of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, Turin, 1991). In this text, Sergio Turconi reaffirmed the fundamental historical role of the first generation of compatriot writers, passed on to those of the new generation.
The original text of Mons. Gabriel Bratina about the parish of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, processing and photographs by Christian Grailach.
With this writing, I want to embed a stone in the mosaic of the past of the settlement of Drenova, describe how it became a parish and who its pastors were from its foundation to the present day.
Rijeka, a maritime and commercial city as a spiritual center did not have its own diocese, but until 1787 it was under administration in Pula, and then under the administration of the Senj-Modruš diocese until 1925. It had three churches and 14 chapels, and the whole city and its surroundings belonged to the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary near the sloping tower (Duomo). Drenova was also involved in this municipal and ecclesiastical division. Because of work, commerce, administration, health, education and religious needs, the people of Drenovci had to go to the city.
It is a happy fact that at that time, in 1835, as a catechist in the parish of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a wolf was appointed. IVAN CVETKO with an additional chaplain service for the area of Drenova where he came to serve Sunday Mass in the chapel of All Saints at today's central city cemetery. He came from Delnice where it was necessary to walk a lot from school to school and from church to church so that he found himself in agreement with the local people and after a short agreement with him he addressed the civil and ecclesiastical authorities with a request for the establishment of a parish on Drenova with the following arguments: people are good, but neglected and untrained, workers have to leave home two hours before if they want to get to work on time and the same effort awaits them on their return, the old people hardly go to the city and can not return without someone else's help. A particular problem is children: They don't have a proper suit, they don't have shoes, it happens that the barefoot go to a certain place, they get dressed there and pass the way to the city. The worst is when their peers from the city mock and laugh at them because they look so miserable. All this was the reason to discuss this at the first meeting of the city council and, in agreement with the diocesan ordinary in Senj, to decide on the establishment of a new parish on Drenova, the first to separate from the home parish in the city. It was 1838. Thanks to Ivan Cvetko, a parish apartment was built in the Terzy area (Terčevo selo) where he temporarily opened an elementary school attended by children from the surrounding area. The next great success and merit of Ivan Cvetko is the construction of the parish church, which was completed in 1847. As an interesting fact, it is worth mentioning that the church in the outer dimensions was built in only three months and that two masonry masters and assistants worked on the construction as much as he was looking for a job, and all together it was on a voluntary basis. The third major work left by Ivan Cvetko was the construction of the first part of the primary school, while the second part was added in 1913 when the Old School took its present form.
Ivan Cvetko
After 10 years of catechetical service in Delnice and 32 years of service in the Drenov parish, which he founded, he was appointed canon of the First Cathedral of Rijeka Kaptol. ‘Goodbye, people!’ were the last words of farewell he said on the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on 16 July 1870 and left. He lived another 14 years in the river. He was buried in the oldest Drenova cemetery, and by the construction of a university settlement his mortal remains were moved to today's Old Cemetery in Donja Drenova. For all the credit Ivan Cvetko gave them, the people of Drenovci repaid by giving his name to the central town square.
The second pastor on Drenova, the successor of Ivan Cvetko, was FABIAN SHIROLA. The memorial of the parish during his service mentions the Jubilee proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII in 1881. There is also an official visit of the Bishop of Senj-Modruš, Mr. Juraj Dr. Posilović to the parish of Drenova in 1883. An event worthy of remembrance occurred on February 13, 1884 when Maria Antonietta, the Grand Duchess of Toscana, visited Drenova with the knight Lazarini and watched with admiration the panorama of Rijeka.
The third pastor who is inscribed in the Monument of the parish is ANTUN LADIĆ. He led the parish from 1884 to 1903. He edited the church from within and founded a company of girls of the Sacred Heart of Jesus who ceased to function in the First World War.
EXIDOR GUDAC He was active in the parish from 1903 to 1906 when he took over the parish in Gerovo (Gorski Kotar). In his time, the first, old cemetery was abandoned because there is no more place for burial and today's Old Cemetery of Donja Drenova was blessed, where Lucija Francetić was first buried. A larger intervention was also done on the parish church when the bell tower was built in its present form instead of the original, lower and pyramidal form. They also acquired a new organ made by Pietro Bazzani from Venice.
Heir to Vladč.Izidor Gudc, the administrator of this parish was appointed mr. PAVAO ŽIGAR, The former chaplain in Ogulin. At the time of his administration, a division arose among the people because the capitulate Vikarijat rightly asked to be removed from the parish. There were some who believed in him, and there were those who believed in him. Priests came from Rijeka to celebrate Holy Mass at least on Sundays, but they came across a closed church. This lasted for almost four years when in 1910 Mr. Roko Vučić was appointed bishop of Senj-Modruš and proposed, in agreement with the magistrate, to launch a competition for the parish priest, to which both sides agreed. Between three candidates; Pavle Žigar, Pavle Oršić and Mate Polić were elected.
MATE POLIĆ He officially became pastor on April 11, 1911. In the Monument of the parish, he notes that that same year he edited the interior of the church and purchased a new main altar at the Ferdinand Stuflesser company in Tyrol. He mentions a great drought and the occurrence of cholera disease, and in 1913 he describes the extension of the Old School building towards Brdina. Sarajevo's assassination marked the beginning of World War I and parish priest Polić keeps records of all parishioners who had to go into the army (214 in total) – 25 killed, 10 maimed and 31 captured in Russia. During the war, the military ministry requisitioned all three bells from the church bell tower and two bells from the chapel of All Saints. Even the metal parts of the organ were requisitioned, so they played only two years. After the war wolf. Polić took care of the nutrition of the hungry population until 1919 when he was transferred to Ogulin.
In the post-war circumstances and new circumstances, he was replaced by his domestic son from Pula ALEKSANDAR SUPERINA who served here until 1926 when he went to Kraljevica because in 1925, a new Diocese of Rijeka was founded, and he wanted to serve in Senj-Modruš.
Since the Treaty of Rapallo and the Treaty of Rome came into force in the meantime, and the Drenova became part of the Italian part of Rijeka, by the decision of the new bishop of Rijeka, Izidor Sain, he was appointed pastor at Drenova vlč. GIUSEPPE MARIOTTINI from Arezzo, Italy, serving as a chaplain in the Italian army.
A very important man in the history of the Drenov church, sociable and noble, very sensitive to the needs of the workers for whom he was looking for a job, and he had success in this because he was close to the civil authorities in the city. Unfortunately, the Second World War is in sight with all the horrors, camps and deaths. When the arrests occurred, he went to command and as a former military chaplain guaranteed for his parishioners and in the vast majority of his intervention was successful and saved many lives.
He died in 1948 and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Donja Drenova. Next to him were later moved and buried the remains of Ivan Cvetko, so that these two deserving Drenov priests rest together.
After his death, the state administration nationalized the parish apartment and on the ground floor moved two families, and in the basement adapted the space, first for the youth organization, and later for the Kindergarten Bubamara.
Since the priests did not have a place to stay in the parish, they ruled from the residential parish. In this way, they served on Drenova: TOMO KARMELIĆ from St. Peter's Parish. Romuald until 1956, VJEKOSLAV SUČIĆ from the same parish until 1960, ANTON PERKAN from the seminary until 1968, and MARIJAN DUJMIĆ from Viškovo until 1969.
On October 5, 1969, he took over the priesthood. GABRIAL OF BRATINA and moves into the northwestern part of the parish apartment, which is emptied by the relocation of teacher Božo Črnjar and wife Marija Črnjar to the old school.
Photo: Marko Jukić, Student of Primary School Fran Franković, the work particularly praised at the Photo Contest “Drenova – pol ure nad rekun 2021”
In V O D
There are few local committees in Rijeka that have two parishes and two churches as Drenova. In fact, three churches, because the Chapel of All Saints in ancient times was the only church on the Drena in which Holy Mass was served. And as we will see from the text, there was a fourth.
There are interesting things in the history of Drenov sacral objects. My intention was to write them down and store them in one place so that they would be accessible to a wider circle of people. In doing so, I am primarily thinking of the people of Drenovci who are social and political circumstances, or rather troubles, scattered around the world and I was convinced of how much they yearn for every word or image from their homeland.
The oldest of all sacral buildings on Drena is the All Saints Chapel on Obrš in the area of the Central City Cemetery, and serves for the last farewell of the deceased.
In the Book of the Historian of Rijeka Ivan Kobler 1811 1896) “History of Rijeka” in the part describing the churches of the then Rijeka area, under number 28 we find the following:
The Chapel of All Saints. – It is located on the Drenovo plateau, towards Podbreg, and it must have been there as early as the 16th century.
In 1603. Catarina Koscich bequeathed 550 lira to this chapel, and in 1606 the Patriarch of Aquileia, in his capacity of superscript, ordered Giovanni Sandalic not to interfere in the management of the land of this chapel, since only the Archdeacon of Rijeka is responsible for this. It appears to have been donated by someone from the Sandalich family, but the modest donation has vanished.
Ivan Kobler
In the “Strazza crediti” notebook by Drenov trader Francesco Stefan, owner of the former butege and bakery pul Benaši started to run on June 23, 1888, on the second page we find his manuscript:
1890 15/8 There were as many crevices from Sisvetih 3 hundred and 15 flight, Fran Stefan
Francesco Stefan
The first record of the construction of the Chapel
Unfortunately Mr. Fran did not specify the source, but thanks to him we can believe that the chapel was built a long time ago 1575. years.
The chapel was a place of worship, which we will later see in the description of the Church of the Mother of God of Carmel and which is in some way evidence of the existence of Drenova as a settlement for more than 400 years. the Chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1628. and later, the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel 1847. year, the chapel loses its original purpose and is becoming more and more decayed. Coming to Drenova in 1970, the then pastor Mons. Gabriel Bratina advocates for its restoration, which was completed in 1977.
The Chapel of All Saints before the Restoration
Reconstruction plan from 1926
The Chapel of All Saints Today
Restored chapel, filmed in 2006.
The chapel, like all churches in 1917, was left without bells, which were then torn to make it too warm for the needs of the war. The bells that are now on the chapel and that are advertised at the funeral of the deceased were made by Drenovski obrtnik, left-hander Živko Golubovac in his workshop in today's Ivana Žorža street and on them poured his name and the name of the monsignor Gabriel Bratine. From the memory of Mons. Gabriel bells were erected in 1982 or 83.
It was renovated again in 2008 and, although time-consuming, it fit nicely into the cemetery area.
The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Carmel
May 1, 1837 Don Ivan Cvetko, until then the parish assistant, was appointed pastor on Drenova. The very next year he had a parish apartment built, which today serves as a residence for our retired pastor, Monsignor Gabriel Bratina. In the parish apartment Ivan Cvetko gathered the more advanced children of Drenova and taught them the first literacy.
Worship was then, for the last 10 years, performed in the chapel of All Saints in today's new cemetery, because the chapel of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, built back in 1628 on the site of the parish apartment, was in dilapidated condition.
Pastor Ivan Cvetko
By the efforts of Ivan Cvetko in civil and ecclesiastical authorities, the construction of a new church was approved in 1847. It is interesting to note that the church in the outer dimensions was built in only 3 months and Holy Masses began to be held there. It was consecrated on September 24, 1863 to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel.
Interesting information about Drenovska, first the chapel, and then the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, can be found in the above-mentioned book by Ivan Kobler in which, under number 29, he brings the following:
Parish Church of Sv. Mary of the Mount of Carmel. – Once a chapel located on the Drenovo plateau and built at the expense of spouses Antonio and Maria Petrarolo, who owned a house there with a vineyard and a forest called Paškvinovac. The foundation stone was blessed on May 2, 1628, by Bishop Giovanni Agatich of Senj and Modruš, and on that occasion its founders undertook to convert the income of half of their house in Rijeka to the Zborne Church, to maintain the chapel and perform worship. By the will of 1639, they founded an inalienable inheritance for the benefit of the Fiorini family, with the obligation to maintain the chapel, but the fideikomis (confidence) was abolished in 1742.
Ivan Kobler
At this point, I'm going to interrupt a quote from Kobler's book to say a few words about the chapel itself. Our great monsignor Gabriel Bratina found under the stone next to the old Parish apartment a brass plate that was placed there in 1628 under the cornerstone, as Kobler described it.
Brass tile with construction start date
From the following images showing the window from the outside and the inside on the western wall of the basement room of the Parish apartment, it is visible by the shape of the window that it was a window on the chapel (and not the basement that it is today), that is, that the chapel of Our Lady of Carmel in question was exactly in that place.
Window on the basement of today's parish apartment, exterior and interior
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When Giovanni Battista's last male heir, Fiorini de Blühenberg, died in 1718, his two daughters, Franciska, wife of Giovanni Domenico Peri, and Maria, Giuseppe Antonio Svilocossi, shared his father's inheritance. Then Antonia, the widow of Monaldi, the daughter of the aforementioned Peria, left in her will in 1756 to her cousin Archdeacon Svilocossi the estate on the Drenoa, with the obligation of maintenance and worship in the chapel. After his death in 1780, possession and patronage belonged to Archdeacon Peria, who, by a document dated 1789, declared that he was the last heir of the female lineage Fiorini, and that he was thus allowed to freely dispose of possession and patronage, because Monaldieva in her will limited possession of goods and patronage only to family members.
Archdeacon de Peri, who died in 1810, with a will from 1807, left the estate on the Drena, with the same obligations, to his great-grandson Frances de Terzy.
As early as 1789, Chaplaincy was founded on Drena, the center of which was this chapel, and the first chaplain was Canon Munier, but when after a year it was abolished, the esteemed Kaptol again took spiritual care.
On September 3, 1836, the City Council decided to establish a parish court on Drenova, which was approved by the Diocese in November of the same year, so that on May 1, the priest Don Giovanni Cvetko, until then the parish assistant in Delnice, was elected pastor on Drenova.
During arranging the income for the maintenance of the cult, the patron Francesko de Terzy, then the city chancellor, vinculated the sum of 500 forints in favor of this chapel.
A little later it was found that due to its weak structure the chapel would not last long. That is why in 1846 it was decided to build a more spacious church with a sum of 2,367 forints. The chapel was demolished, and on September 24, 1863 the bishop was consecrated to Bl. He dedicated a new church to the Virgin Mary from Mount Carmel.
Ivan Kobler
I will add here the data from Marin Štefan’s pen in ‘Drenovski list’ No 18:
Thus, on May 10, 1847, the cornerstone of the new church was blessed, and on November 22 of the same year, the built part was blessed so that the liturgy could be used. The church was finished and solemnly consecrated on September 24, 1863 by the Bishop of Senj and Modruš, Dr. Vjenceslav Šoić.
Marino Štefan
A document on this with the signature of the pastor Ivan Cvetko can be found in the Parish Book entitled Liber insertionis historiae neorectae Parochiae Drenovensis ab anno 1887. (The book of additions to the history of the newly founded parish of Drenova since 1887.)
Record of the Consecration of the Church
The Parish Book
Photo before 2. the World War
Photo before 2. the World War
In the above-mentioned parish book, which is kept in the church, you can find many interesting things related to the appearance and furnishing of the church.
Record of the bell tower by the parish priest Izidor Gudc
So is Pastor Izidor Gudac wrote that in August 1903, the bell tower on the church, which I had built by the Rijeka Magistrat, was completed, and the construction was entrusted to the Drenov construction entrepreneur Lino Kučić. And instead of the bell tower – as Reverend Gudac famously wrote – Until then, you could see a dove on the roof of the church - with bells in it.
Appearance of the bell tower before remodeling
We also find an interesting record of Reverend Gudac that on February 18, 1906 a collaboration of new church organs was made by Pietro Bassani from Venice, but, as he says, there was no one to play them. It was not until 1916 that the Drenov church was given a permanent organist when Fran Blažić Jurov-Jr., on the initiative of the parish priest Mate Polić, finished his teaching at the Rijeka organist Josip Vidrih.
The plan of landscaping the church from 1856.
Looking on the Internet for information about the church, I came across an interesting, although I would say, slightly idealized view from 1856 (picture above), where you can see the church, the parish court and the “Old School” in its first form, which was added in 1913 to the size of today's building.
On the lower, slightly more recent, sketch, you can also see the well, the access stairs that still exist today and the house of Lino Kučić where it was sold for years: Linot's butega In its place there is a building called “Beautiful Brena” by the people of Drenovci.
Sketch of the surroundings of the church and school
The Church's Remodeling Plan of 1902
Part of the record of the parish priest Mate Polić on the main altar
Record of Mate Polić on bells requisitioned by the military ministry
Also interesting is the story of the bells on the Drenov churches of the older age. In the so far frequently mentioned Parish Book, as early as 1917, the parish priest Mate Polić wrote under the title Bells inter alia:
The Military Ministry requisitioned the bells for war purposes, and decided to spare the bells of historical value and one bell for religious use. On March 29, 1917, the following bells were removed from Krasica by Lessee Togunjec:
Mate Polić
The parish priest Polić describes in detail two bells (weight, engraved texts and figures) that were removed from the bell tower of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel as well as two on the Chapel of All Saints and gives an interesting detail from the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel:
These bells were thrown out the window of the bell tower, but none of them broke...the least of them were left for religious use. And this was finally taken away in the year 1917 in the month of October
Mate Polić
There are two bells on the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel today: large since 1947, weighing 350 kg made by the company Kvirin Lebiš from Zagreb and small, weighing 82 kg made in 1924 in the company Salio A. Blažina from Zagreb.
With the most necessary maintenance of the building, the church resisted the time until 2001, when a serious reconstruction began.
The following paintings show the interior of the church before the remodeling, where you can also see a beautiful crystal chandelier, which was unfortunately destroyed during the church's construction.
The former appearance of the altar
Statue in front of the church with the image of the Virgin Mary
The interior of the church before remodeling
Today's appearance of worms and pastoral center
Beginning of reconstruction of the wolf. Gabriel Bratina described this in the Parish Book: What happened on October 1, 2001? The parish church began to collapse, but it was to be built!
‘Novi list’ of 16 July 2003 adopted an article entitled Church built by contributions of the faithful from which is shown the image of the church in the course of reconstruction .
That same year in 2003, in June, Pope John Paul II visited Croatia and Rijeka. On this occasion, a statue of the Virgin Mary and a plaque with a commemorative inscription were placed on the stone pedestal in front of the church.
A few years later, in 2006. Works on the extension and extension of the church continued, making the entire complex today's appearance. The upgraded part resulted in a pastoral center with all the necessary facilities that provide an opportunity for quality pastoral work.
the Church of Holy July
Source: The Wolf. Nikica Jurić, 70 years of St. Peter's. St. George's martyr on Upper Drenova, ‘Drenovski list’ No 16’
By the Treaty of Rome in 1924, Drenova was separated into Upper and Lower Drenova. This demarcation left the upper part of Drenova, Podbreg, Kablari, Lopača, Grohovo without a church, cemetery and school.
It was not until 1931 that the construction of the sacral building began: The future church.
Construction of the Church of St. George
Construction of the Church of St. George
Along with the church, a parish apartment was built, which was completed the same year. The church was built intensively the following year, but it was not fully completed until August 6, 1939, when it was blessed by Dean Anton Košir, parish priest in St. Matthew. Prior to that, the same year, on 23 April, by decree of the Senj-Modruš Episcopal Ordinariate in Senj, the parish of St. George the Martyr was founded on Gornja Drena.
Picture from the time of completion of construction
The newly established parish includes: place Drenova and villages Benaši, Brdo, Grohovo, Kablari, Lopača, Mugarić, Patersko and Podbreg.
The church was built with the contribution and care of the Croatian Ban's government in Zagreb, which bore all the construction costs. It was built from reinforced concrete with a stone wall in the Old Croatian style. The length of the building is about 16 and the width 11 meters. The main altar is made of stone with an embossed picture of St. John the Baptist. George above the tabernacle. The altar was erected on April 26, 1937. The bell dedicated to St. Juraj, weighing 192 kilograms, was salived in Zagreb at the company ‘Kvirin Lebiš’. It was acquired in 1933, and was consecrated by the then auxiliary bishop Franz Salis-Sevis of Zagreb, who later led the Archdiocese of Zagreb after the arrest of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac.
During and after World War II, the parish apartment also served for military purposes, so that there was a German military command, and after the war the right of disposal was usurped by the Rijeka Housing Community.
It was not until 1961 that the right of ownership of the parish was restored, but as a real estate of the parish of Sv. St. Matthew, from whom he was a wolf. Marijan Dujmović, then director of the parish of Sv. St. George's Parish Church Jurja has been renovated and rehabilitated several times: From 1969 to 1971, the bell tower was repaired in 1975, and the roof in 1985. Work on the maintenance and renovation of the church continued, as can be seen in the picture from 1991.
Reconstruction in 1991
The church was rebuilt in 2003.
By advocating for a long time the head of the parish, Fr. Nikica Jurić's parish apartment and the church that looks like this today have been completely renovated
Today's appearance of St. Peter's Church. Juraj
SHOPPING ON YOUR GOOD
Source: Marino Štefan, Sparks from Drenov history – chapel or monument to an unknown hero on Veli Vrh, ‘Drenovski list’ No 19
In the daily newspaper LA VEDETTA D’ITALIA which were published in Rijeka at the beginning of the Second World War in the numbers of 5, 11 and 12 October 1941 written testimony about the preparation and opening of the chapel at Veli Vrh (Italian Monte Lesco) on the day of St. Martin, 11 November 1941.
Construction of the chapel
The appearance of the chapel immediately after its construction in 1941.
The chapel was blessed by the Military Ordinary Mons. Bartolomasi, accompanied by military chaplain Giussepe Raimondi. It was built by the border guards and soldiers of the XXVIII sector of the Italian army (these were soldiers from northern Italy, mainly from Bresce and Bergamo). The construction and consecration was on behalf of Italy, as a symbol of the victory in April (think of ending the April War between the Axis powers and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 6 to 17 April 1941) and the liberation of this region from Serbian tyranny as the same source puts it from 5 November 1941, p.3: “...che il nome d’Italia suoni come simbolo di Vittoria e di civitta’ in una terra da lunghi anni soggiogata dalla tyrannia serba’. The chapel also received its protection in the name of the Mother of God from the guards at the border!
It was built on the highest elevation of Veli vrh, a hill above Drenova, at an altitude of 439 meters. The years of construction determined the neoclassicist architecture of the 30s and 40s of the last century. The chapel has an ejected apse (about 1 m away) and a horsetail over the entrance facade, interestingly, without a bell. In the copy there is a stone relief of the Mother of God, which holds two churches: Trsat and Cossack. The chapel has a large arched entrance where originally, there were only iron doors from metal profiles, visually transparent (which would have been better if it had remained during the renovation, without glazing). The chapel remained in use until 8 September 1943. During the post-war period, from 1945 onwards, no one took care of it, so that the building progressively deteriorated. Partly because at the time of construction, but also later, this area was in the military zone and it was not allowed to carry out any works in it, without the consent of the military authorities. The population of Drenova, in the time of Italy, could only be there on the day of the opening of the chapel, which also testifies to the character of the building.
The Chapel Before the Restoration
This state of deterioration lasted until the second half of the 1990s, when spontaneous renovation began, which included a complete renovation of the building with a new roof and roof, plastering and painting of the masonry, facade and floor tiling. A black locksmith was also installed (two side windows and an entrance metal door modelled on the former one, initially installed without glazing, later, contrary to the will of the refurbishment designer, glazed). The interior of the apse was painted by the Russian artist Alexander Zvyagin, while the stone relief in a copy was restored by the academic sculptor Zlatko Kutnjak.
Today's appearance of the renovated chapel
Building built next to the chapel
Shortly after the renovation, the environment of the chapel was further enriched in the immediate vicinity, for which the municipal services of the City of Rijeka also showed interest. A removal order has also been issued, but... nothing yet.
Chapel on Lokva
It doesn't exist anymore. It was built in 1883, but in 1960, when the road, today's Drenovski put, was widened, it had to be demolished.
A stone slab from the chapel on which it is carved is preserved, and in the newly erected drywall by the road:
JESUS AND MARY BILA
OUR GOOD COUPLE
NIA TEACHED BI 1883
Part of the record in the Parish Book
The chapel was filmed in the late 1930s.
KAPEL AT THE TIME OF REBRA
The year 1913 stands on the top of the Rebre chapel. Everyone would have thought that this was the year the chapel was built. However, I was convinced that this was not the case when our great Reverend Gabriel, in the already mentioned Parish Book, showed me a record entitled ‘The New Chapel at the Peak of the Rebre’, which was recorded on 9 September 1913 by the then Drenov parish priest Mate Polić. Here is the verbatim transcript:
New chapel at the top of the Rebre
At the top of the hill, the so-called The "Rebre" consisted of a crucifixion, which he had raised with a posthumous crucifixion. Francik Kucich (d. Škripalo) as a gift to the Crucified Saviour and Bl. To the Virgin Mary of Mercy at Trsat. The tooth of the time worked on the mentioned crucifix, which finally in 1912 the bora, which was there good blowing, broke and shattered the stones. There is no other option but to raise a new crucifixion.
Some parishioners, especially Anton Franković and Iginio Superina, decided to erect a chapel, which will somewhat protect the crucified from the storm and storm. Immediately, these two were given to collect the donations, and they gathered on Dolnja Drenova and on Pula the sum of 139 Kr. 28 phil., and the Iron Cross was donated by Mr. Mate Petrich, Capomakinista at the maritime area in Rijeka. With this collected sum, they began the construction of the chapel, having previously received permission from the building office, and working for a few days for free, they would finally be built, and Mr. Venceslav Cergnar, the conductor of this local school, would give the same color.
September 7, 1913 is the same as the licensed bisk. Ordinariate in Senj blessed. From the parish church we went through the procession to the chapel, where first the blessing of the cross was performed, then the homily and finally the Holy Mass was sung. The people decorated the chapel with flowers and flags for this occasion, and the blessing was done with the shooting of the mortars. The cost of construction was lih 138 Kr. 56 phil., and this is because some parishioners worked free and donated materials for construction. The list of income and expenses can be found in the archives of the parish. The chapel would be valued at 500 BC.
Drenova, September 9, 1913.
Mate Polić, pastor
The chapel today
Relief
The chapel in 2006
It turned out that in 1913 the chapel was placed in a place where there had been a wooden crucifix for a long time: It is not known exactly when it was installed, Mons. My brother thinks it was 1890. It is also dedicated to Bl. To the Virgin Mary on Trsat from what was once seen from that place the Shrine on Trsat. Today, it is no longer visible from newly built houses and growing greenery. The beautiful iron cross mentioned in the text and seen in the picture from the time before 2. World War II was destroyed after the war due to ideological turmoil at that time.
The chapel is now regularly maintained. The Reverend Gabriel told me that he had built a stone relief made in Italy into the chapel, but it was soon demolished by irresponsible individuals with a ‘piercer’, which caused significant damage. Relief has been repaired (see picture) and is waiting to be put back in place of the present crucifix that you see in the image of the chapel today, after it was restored in 2008.
SHOPPING ON THE OLD GROB OF DRENES
In 1903 the Old Cemetery of Drenova was built. Within the cemetery, the middle part of today's chapel was built. At that time and years later, the funerals moved from the church, and the building was used in the case when the deceased did not attend mass, such as suicides or in the case of death from an infectious disease. According to Monsignor Bratina, a massive stone table was set up in the building, on which the autopsy of the deceased could also be performed. In 2000 it was extended on the south side and on the north side a canopy was built so that since then the funerals no longer start from the church but from the chapel.
TWO CAPALS IN CABLES
The first chapel “Na Franić” is at the beginning of the village along the road. Unfortunately, it's quite neglected and it would be a real shame if it failed.
The second is in the center of the village, next to the old communal well. It takes place inasmuch as someone is colored from time to time.
No one, not even the oldest locals, knows when they were built. Everyone just says: ‘The shoe is made of vavek tu’.
CAPITAL AT LUBANIA'S DISPLAY
A beautiful chapel was built into the dry stone wall along the ascent of Lubanj. Older locals say that the local milkmaids stopped there to pray on their way to Rijeka. At that time, the road from that place turned towards today's Orešje in order to break out at the Master's on today's Drenovski put.
The chapel was renovated by Mr. Ivan Franković from Lokve in 2006 with his own efforts and funds.
KAPELICA IN GROHOV
It was built by the locals of Grohov in 2000 on the initiative and personal commitment of Grohovčan Ivan Marić.
Chapel in Grohovo
In the chapel, the parish priest of St. George's parish, which includes Grohovo, celebrates Holy Mass every year on Grohovo Day (the first Sunday after the Assumption of Mary).
THE SHOWER OF THE CHILDREN OF THE CHILDREN OF THE SIMPLE
Chapel or Grota (cave) to the left of St. George's Church She preserves the figure of the Virgin of the Poor from Banneux, Belgium, where she appeared to a girl in 1933.
Virgin of the Poor in Banneux, Belgium
The statue of the Virgin of the Poor was given to Ljiljana Marić from Drenovčanka in Belgium and in 1995 she had a chapel built in which the statue was stored.
CROSS PUL BENAŠI
On the old wall, at the crossroads of the Drenovski put and Bruno Francetić Street, the Benaši pole, for over 120 years stands a wooden cross with a crucifix on a pedestal made of carved stone and carved year of construction in 1899.
Cross Pole Benaši
The cross is protected, for that time, by a characteristic tin lining.
The Cross Ends Holy July Church
In the park between the church of St. George and St. George's Street, on a stand made of masonry stone, stands a wooden cross with a crucifix.
Cross next to the Church of St. George
Similar to the old cross on Benaši, it is protected by a tin roof. The year 1983 was engraved on the cross when, during his service, he was a wolf. Berislav Humski, and set.
A Cross on the Hill Along the St. George's Street
On the Hill, next to St. George's Street, there is a wooden cross with a crucifix erected on a masonry stone stand.
Cross in St. George's Street
She had it installed by Drenovčanka Milena Polonijo and wears the engraved date of installation 10. 6. 2001
THE CROSS IN THE STREET OF IVANA ŽORŽA
As it stands in the inscription on the marble slab, the cross was erected by Mate Sikavica in 2012, as the first inhabitant of the street.
Cross in Ivana Žorža Street
This statement does not stand up, knowing that this part of Drenova had been inhabited before. Let's leave mr. Sikavians to keep their opinions and accept his contribution to the enrichment of religious symbols on the Drenoa,
SHARING SHARING
From 1903 until the end of World War II, there was on Skull, at the beginning of the old road to Lopaca, a large iron cross with a crucifix that was demolished, apparently, for ideological reasons. Many older people in Drenovci do not know this, but the documentation from the museum's digital collection and the recently found statue of Jesus from the crucifix are proof of its existence.
On March 28, 1903, the then Drenov parish priest Antun Ladić sent a letter to the Diocesan Ordinary of Senj Modruš in which he prayed that the blessing of the crucifix be approved and that an open-air mass be held on that occasion. It says in the letter;
Reverend Ordinariate!
Milodars of the Drenovski regiment were provided with a nice large iron propeller, which, at the request of the parishioners, would have to be placed on top of the hill of Skull, which lords over the entire parish j through which passes the people of Rijeka from all over the parish of Deer. It is the wish of the whole people, and of mine, that the blessing of this propeller be done as solemnly as possible. Therefore, I would be free to pray to the venerable Ordinariate, so that on the occasion of this ceremony, which would be held next Sunday (flowering plant), in addition to the solemn blessing of the prophecy, I would be allowed to attend Holy Mass under the clear sky in front of that prophecy, with the occasional sermon, in case of a favorable time. I believe that this would contribute greatly, that in this people, who are mostly employed in a corrupt city, where many seek to abduct his faith in the crucified Christ, the worship of the Holy Cross of Jesus will be strengthened and the constancy in professing the Holy Faith will be strengthened. If it's a crossword. The Ordinariate would not find it appropriate, if Holy Mass were to be celebrated above, I ask that he grant me permission, so that I may solemnly bless the crucifix.
Drenova 28. III. 903.
Antun Ladić
On March 31, the Diocesan Ordinariate sent a letter approving the request of the parish priest Ladić. Unfortunately, we don't know the exact date of the blessing, but we can certainly count on 1903. It was crucified and marked on a map from the end of the 30s of the last century
Part of the letter from Pastor Antun Ladić
Permit of the Diocesan Ordinariate
After many years, a statue of Jesus made of cast iron (unfortunately damaged), about 80 cm tall, was recently found in the tavern of Alenka Franković's house, which was placed on a crucifix from 1903.
The Statue of Jesus from the Crucifix on the Skull
Map with marked crucifix
Finally, I want to thank you:
Mons. Gabriel Bratini for selfless help and providing valuable information that helped me greatly in compiling this text
The Wolf. Nikica Jurić and Mr Marin Štefan whose writings I used in ‘Drenovski list’
The Wolf. Marijan Benković for allowing me an insight into the Parish Book, which is an inexhaustible source of many events from Drenova's past.
To the staff of the State Archives of Rijeka on expert assistance when searching documentation
Sources:
Digital Archive of the Drenove Regional Museum
State Archives Rijeka
Giovanni Kobler: History of Rijeka, Book One (Preluk, Opatija, 1995)
Notebook Strazza crediti the Drenov dealer Francesco Stefan
The Parish Book: “ Liber insertionis historiae neorectae Parochiae Drenovensis ab anno 1887.’
Glasilo MO Drenova Drenovski list
The author's text was originally published in DOMETIMA No. I-IV from 2019.
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