VIRI ILLUSTRI ORDINIS FRATRUM MINORUM CAPUCCINORUM NA SLIKAMA U KAPUCINSKOME SAMOSTANU I CRKVI PRESVETOGA TROJSTVA U VARAŽDINU
VIRI ILLUSTRI ORDINIS FRATRUM MINORUM CAPUCCINORUM ON PAINTINGS IN THE CAPUCHIN MONASTERY AND THE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY IN VARAŽDIN

Summary/Abstract: A valuable contribution to the research and knowledge of Capuchin iconography and hagiography is a collection of paintings in the Capuchin monastery and the Church of Holy Trinity in Varaždin. Besides the altar painting with the representation of Vision of St. Felix of Cantalice (18-19th century), the first canonised Capuchin saint (1712), in the lateral chapel of the monastery (today parish) church, representations of Capuchin saints and the blessed ones may be found in the cycle of paintings in the monastery refectory. There, in addition to holy founders of the Franciscan order and models of Franciscanism - St. Francis of Assisi, St. Anthony of Padua and St. Bonaventure – there may be found, as their successors and examples of Capuchin holiness, St. Fidelis from Sigmaringen, a proto-martyr of Propagandae fidei, St. Lawrence of Brindisi, the Doctor of the Church, and the most meritable person for the initial spreading of the Capuchin order in the Central Europe, the blessed Angelo from Acri, evangelist and the lay missionary, and also the blessed Bernard of Offida, a lay apostle. The said representations virorum illustrium ordinis fratrum minorum capuccinorum are joined by paintings of martyrdom of St. Fidelis from Sigmaringen (Blasius Grueber, middle of the 18th century), St. Lawrence of Brindisi (18-19th century) and St. Joseph of Leonessa (18th century), located in the hall of the monastery cloister.

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