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veti Petar u Šumi got its name after the it, dates back to the same period and shows that all the wealth of unrivalled treasure across Istria, the main

Benedictine monastery, which appears in three scripts were in use at the time.When the interest in reason for the pilgrimage to the church at Sveti Petar u

historical documents from 1174 with an the Benedictine order faded and the monastery was Šumi is the still prodigious image of Our Lady of

unclear note on its 50 years of existence. Unlike other abandoned, in 1459 Emperor Frederick III handed the Czestochowa, which you can still see exposed at the

Istrian villages and towns where a settlement was built monastery over to the Paulines-the white monks, who high altar. The image was made by an unknown

on a hilltop with a church and its tower, with the edges restored it. Interestingly enough, they arranged the Pauline painter and it was modelled after the one

of the hill dotted with houses, at Sveti Petar u Šumi cloister (2) in the way that they put the new Renaissance which is housed at the largest Polish Marian shrine of

there were no houses around either the church or the columns on the ground floor and moved the old Jasna Gora (Czestochowa). According to the

monastery. Its inhabitants lived a bit further away, in Romanesque ones to the floor above. At the same time, statements and official records of numerous witnesses,

scattered hamlets situated next to fields and vineyards, the Paulines restored the monastic church of the Holy the image at Sveti Petar u Šumi shed tears on

on the edges of karst plains filled with the red soil they Apostles Peter and Paul (3) in the Gothic style. The Christmas Eve of 1721. In the years that followed, many

cultivated, just the way it is today.Legends have it that monastery was burnt and partially knocked down in the miraculous healings were documented in the diocesan

the Hungarian King Salomon (+ 1089) spent some time Uskok war of 1616. Its renovation began in the mid-17th archives and monastic manuscripts, which made Sveti

at Sveti Petar u Šumi after he had been dethroned in century. In his work The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola Petar u Šumi a pilgrimage destination.When in 1783

dynastic struggles. The monastery is also associated (1689), Valvasor does not attach much significance to Emperor Joseph II suppressed numerous church

the monastery, mentioning only a peculiarity of the fact orders in the Austrian countries, the monastery

that in the monastic church no one had ever seen - a became State property and the books from the

spider. The church was reconsecrated in 1755, after it got monastic library were sold at a public auction. The

the Baroque style façade that can be still seen today. Its notable Pauline collection from 1644, the manuscript

interior was richly equipped in the same style, the one containing many monophonic liturgical chants

that is very seldom encountered across Istria. All the and spiritual melodies in Croatian language, had been

altars were made by the Pauline Pavao Riedl, whose kept in the library. The Pauline church of St. Peter and

work are also the pulpit, organ casing and the sculptures St. Paul became then the parish church and thus

on the façade of the church. His associate and manager managed to preserve its beauty up to the present time,

of the monastic household at the time, Leopold while the old parish church of St.Rochus, which is still

Keckheisen, was the author of all the altar paintings in today adorned with the largest stone tiled roof in Istria,

the church. Their artistry was also recognized in a became the cemetery church. After many years, the

broader community, therefore, they equipped and Paulines took over the parish in 1993 and are still

painted other churches and monasteries (Pazin, Senj, involved in the spiritual life of the inhabitants of Sveti

Punat, Crikvenica) as well.Two side chapels (the first on Petar u Šumi. with the Istrian side of the Counts of Gorizia, who ruled the right and the first on the left hand side)are even to in Pazin from the 13th to the 15th century and ordinarily the present day partially lined with the painted leather helped the monastery, where they allegedly had family wallpapers installed at that time, which is a true rarity. tombs. From the times of the Benedictines there is only The clerestory windows and the system of cross-vaulted one Latin book preserved, written in Carolingian ceilings create special lighting effects. Around 1770 such minuscule, from the end of the 11th or the beginning of Baroque atmosphere of the church was enriched with the 12the century. The Fragment of Sveti Petar u Šumi the sounds of the pipe organ built by Johan Georg Eisl, (1), a stone found among the ruins of the monastery an organ builder from Ljubljana. Along with all this wall with Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet inscribed on

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To visit the curch and monastery please refer to Parish office or by phone ++385(0)52 686 021

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Agroturizam BOTRA MARIJA, Gljušćići 195, phone ++385(0)91 503 43 75, 19:00 - 22:00; Monday closed

Agroturizam POD ČERIPNJONDolinci 245, phone ++385(0)91 726 00 59, must be booked

Konjički klub HIPOS, Dajčići 103, phone ++385(0)98 855 251, ++385(0)98 891 182

Pršutana Jelenić, phone ++385(0)91 420 4999, ++385(0)91 201 3400

Caffe bar Plac, phone ++385(0)686 50907:00 - 24:00

OPG Franko Zgrablić,Dajčići 115b, phone ++385(0)98 91 45 633

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