| According to previously researched historical data Franciscan church. Spirit is the oldest (partly) preserved church in Pozega. The church and monastery were of course the arrival of the Franciscans in the city after the expulsion of the Tatars in the 13th Croatian century Franciscans in Pozega already mentioned 1260th and believes that the church and monastery built in the reign of King Ladislaus IV., around 1285, Mr. Church was originally dedicated to St.. Demetrius says that a document from 1317, which among other things states that the monastery and the church burned 1305th g. When the Turks conquered Pozega 1537th, destroying the monastery, a church converted into a mosque called "Šerklot". That is why the church has preserved late Romanesque, Gothic and Ottoman architecture. It showed the archaeological works during 1994. and 1995. year. In the courtyard of the monastery have been discovered many ceramic items dating from the 13th paragraphs (dishes), and the remains of a stone wall at that time. However, 1995. during the trial archaeological excavations revealed a richly decorated Romanesque portal from the 13th On the northern part of the church. It is built on a large stone blocks on which a visible residue marmorizirane frescoes red and black. With portals, Zadar and Trogir Cathedral Church of St. portal. Spirit is one of the largest Romanesque portal 13.u Croatia. It was found subsequently built into a smaller Turkish portal from the 16th c.
After the Turks left the Franciscans from the nearby Vučjaka coming back to his old place of 1708th Mr. began building a new monastery, which was finished in 1724th Parallel to the editor and rebuilt church. The Spirit. It was built over vaulted nave, lateral, north and south chapel and the sacristy. From the Gothic period preserved the nave and the sanctuary, the bell tower (the original to the third floor), nadsvođenje shrine, a triumphal arch and the north portal. The church was - 25.6 length of the nave, a width of 8.4 meters, while the sanctuary is 8.6 long and 6.6 meters wide.
The church interior is enriched with valuable baroque altars and paintings (three Tyrolean altar from the 17th and 18th century) and especially valuable Baroque altar in the sacristy of the 1737th g. Under the sanctuary of the church is the tomb that is closed 1867th g. In the tomb, among the Franciscans, and buried the famous Požežani - judges, senators, officers, noblemen. There is also buried two-year daughter of Baron Trenk. Here he found his last rest, and Father Luke Watros, the famous "Hawk", the liberator of Pozega and Slavonia, that part of the Turks.
In his church in 1892. set up a gravestone with the lyrics of the poet Francis požeškog Ciraki. The monastery contains a rich library. Although the bulk of it destroyed in 1842 fire. g. It belongs to the category of zero and one is valuable in Croatia. It covers about
15 000 volumes of incunabula of the 16th the century.
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