'Saints without God'
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COVER PAGE Saints-protectors from Diseases and the Sanctuary of the Mother of God at Trsat
The picture representing St. Catarine surrounded by virgins and martyrs (front page) was painted by friar Serafin Schön, in 1631, for the altar of St. Catherine in the Sanctuary of the Mother of God at Trsat near Rijeka. The church and the Franciscan monastery were built in the 15th century. The church is the oldest and best-known Croatian shrine of the Virgin Mary (1,2). In the center of this ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nordisk Judaistik/Scandinavian Jewish Studies
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2343-4929,0348-1646
DOI: 10.30752/nj.68791