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Cathedral of St. Vitus
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Sanja
November 11, 2017
About St. Vitus Cathedral Rijeka’s St. Vitus Cathedral is the only Baroque rotunda of monumental dimensions built on Croatian land. The construction of this church began in 1638 based on the design of the Jesuit architect G. Brian. The eminent Venetian church, Santa Maria della Salute, served as s model.
Jasna
July 7, 2015
One of the oldest churches in Rijeka.
Raoul
March 16, 2018
Old and famous local church
Ljiljana
October 14, 2018
St. Vitus’ CathedrThe collection is located in an extremely attractive location, in a gallery above the internal part and the altar of the church, while the treasury is in the atrium of the Cathedral.al Sacral Collection.
Krunoslav
July 12, 2022
St. Vitus’ Cathedral, you see today isn’t the original church. Initially, there was a small church of the same name, dedicated to the city’s patron saint. The Jesuits, as the creators of the project, primarily decided to use the cult of the Miraculous Crucifix from the small church, which, according to popular legend, started bleeding when a certain Petar Lončarić threw a stone at it after exploding with rage over a gambling loss. The early Gothic crucifix is incorporated into the Baroque main altar of the new church, which, in the spirit of storytelling piety inherent to miraculous relics, also houses Lončarić’s stone and a small bronze hand.
St. Vitus’ Cathedral, you see today isn’t the original church. Initially, there was a small church of the same name, dedicated to the city’s patron saint. The Jesuits, as the creators of the project, primarily decided to use the cult of the Miraculous Crucifix from the small church, which, according…
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11 Grivica ul.
Rijeka, Primorsko-goranska županija