{"id":61304,"date":"2023-11-20T13:50:59","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofmconv.net\/croazia-festa-di-san-nicola-tavelic-a-sibenik\/"},"modified":"2023-11-20T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T12:52:41","slug":"croazia-festa-di-san-nicola-tavelic-a-sibenik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/croazia-festa-di-san-nicola-tavelic-a-sibenik\/","title":{"rendered":"Croatia: Feast of St. Nicholas TAVELI\u0106 in \u0160ibenik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On November 14, 2023, the Feast of St. Nicholas TAVELI\u0106 was celebrated at the national shrine named in his honor in \u0160ibenik, Croatia. He is the first native-born saint of Croatia. He was canonized in 1970.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Most Reverend Roko GLASNOVI\u0106, Bishop of Dubrovnik, Croatia, presided over the 6:00 p.m. solemn Mass. Those concelebrating included the Most Reverend Tomislav ROGI\u0106, Bishop of \u0160ibenik, Croatia; Friar Miljenko HONTI\u0106, the Minister Provincial of the Province of St. Jerome in Croatia; Friar Josip IVANOVI\u0106, the local Guardian and Rector of the Shrine; and seventeen other priests. The Mass was preceded by a procession along the streets of the city.<br \/>\nIn his homily, Bishop GLASNOVI\u0106 stressed the importance of seeking the truth and living it according to the example set by St. Nicholas who never stopped following the Truth: Christ Himself.<br \/>\nThe faithful had the opportunity to prepare for the Feast of St. Nicholas over nine consecutive Fridays (September 15 through November 10) and also by attending a preparatory novena. Young men in formation, from the Province and the local diocese, as well as altar servers from the Shrine, provided liturgical service, while the choir from the St. Francis Friary Church in Split, Croatia, sang at the Mass. The Mass was broadcast live on <em>Laudato TV<\/em> and <em>Croatian Catholic Radio<\/em> (HKR).<br \/>\nSt. Nicholas TAVELI\u0106 was a Franciscan friar who was martyred in Jerusalem in 1391, together with three other friars. He was canonized by Pope St. Paul VI in 1970. Born in \u0160ibenik, Croatia, St. Nicholas preached the Gospel in Bosnia trying to convert Muslims and the heretical Bogumilians. After twelve years, he left Bosnia and departed for the Holy Land, where he was martyred.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Friar Josip IVANOVI\u0106<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14, 2023, the Feast of St. Nicholas TAVELI\u0106 was celebrated at the national shrine named in his honor in \u0160ibenik, Croatia. He is the first native-born saint of Croatia. He was canonized in 1970. The Most Reverend Roko GLASNOVI\u0106, Bishop of Dubrovnik, Croatia, presided over the 6:00 p.m. solemn Mass. Those concelebrating included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,132,148],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-61304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cef-en","category-federations","category-news","tag-croatia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ofmconv.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}