SOCIAL EVENTS

EXCURSION TO JURANDVOR AND TO THE TOWN OF KRK

Friday afternoon, at 2.00 pm sharp, the excursion to Jurandvor and to the town of Krk for all participants and accompanying persons will be organized. In Jurandvor is the church of St. Lucy which was build in about 1100 AD on the ruins of villa rustica, an early Christian church from the 7th century. Inside the church, the mythic Baška tablet (in Croatian: Baščanska ploča) was found. Baška tablet is one of the first monuments containing an inscription in the Croatian language, in glagolitic script, dating from the year 1100 AD. The tablet was discovered by scholars in 1851 in the paving of the Romanesque church. Since 1934 the original has been kept in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb.

The inscribed stone slab records King Zvonimir's donation of a piece of land to a Benedictine abbey in the time of abbot Držiha. The second half of the inscription tells how Abbot Dobrovit built the church along with nine monks. The inscription is written in the Glagolitic script. It provides the only example of transition from Glagolitic of the rounded Macedonian type to the angular Croatian alphabet. The tablet is considered to be the birth certificate of the Croats, as the name Croatia and adjective Croatian are mentioned here for the first time in the Croatian language. Despite the fact of not being the oldest Croatian Glagolitic monument (the Plomin tablet, Valun tablet, Krk inscription, are older and certainly all appeared in the 11th century) and in spite of the fact that it was not written in the pure Croatian native language - it has nevertheless been referred to as "the jewel of the Croatian language" and "the baptismal certificate" of Croatian literary culture. The tablet is depicted on the obverse of the Croatian 100 kuna banknote, issued in 1993 and 2002. The transliterated text, with restored segments in square brackets, is as follows:

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, I,

abbot Držiha, wrote this concerning the land which

Zvonimir, the Croatian king, gave in

his days to St. Lucia. And the witnesses [were]

count Desimir in Krbava, Martin in Lika,

Piribineg in Vinodol and Jakob in

Otok. Whoever denies this, let him be cursed by God and the twelve apostles and the four

evangelists and Saint Lucia. Amen. And whoever lives here

let him pray for it to God. I, abbot Dobrovit,

built this church with nine of my brethren

in the days of prince Kosmat ruling

over the entire province. And in those days [the parish of St.]

Nicholas in Otočac was joined with [the parish of] St. Lucia.

 The town of Krk is well known of its cathedral, churches, castles and walls. A refreshment in Volsonis, in a bar-museum showing excavations of Roman  monuments.

Town of Krk

St. Lucy Church in Jurandvor

MEETING DINNER

The meeting dinner for all participants and accompanying persons will take place in the Hotel Corinthia on Saturday evening at 8.00 pm.