A Contribution to the Creation of a Historical Atlas of The Monastic III Order of Holy Father Francis in Croatian Historical Lands

As an appendix to his book Prema izvorima (1990) friar Petar Runje composed a historical map of tertiary Franciscan monasteries and written records in the Croatian historical lands. Since several scientific papers on the Croatian Franciscan tertiaries as well as an indispensable second part of the said book from the same author (Promo izvorima II, 2012) have been published since that time, a need was felt to create a new historical atlas to present more clearly the spatial distribution of tertiary communities and the dynamics of the historical changes in the spatial presence of the Franciscans of the Third order in Croatian lands. Therefore, based on existing historiographic knowledge drawn from the monographs from father friar Stjepan Marija IvanCie (1852 1925) and friar Petar Runje (1938 2014) as well as from scientific papers published so far, we propose to portray the spatial presence of tertiary Franciscans in a series of historical maps. The periods from the earliest mention of tertiary Franciscans in the Croatian lands in the middle of the 13th century up to the modern-day monasteries and parishes administered by the Croatian Province of Glagolitic Franciscan Tertiaries will be shown on a total of 9 maps.