BISHOP ANTUN MAHNIĆ AND CROATIAN CATHOLIC MOVEMENT

Članak prikazuje nastanak i razvoj Hrvatskog katoličkog pokreta (HKP-a) na početku 20. st., s naročitim naglaskom na ulozi biskupa Mahnića. Razvidna su sva važna zbivanja od Prvog hrvatskog katoličkog sastanka 1900., osnivanja prvih studentskih katoličkih udruženja i pokretanja katoličkih listova do osnutka krovne organizacije hrvatskih katoličkih laika – Hrvatskog katoličkog narodnog saveza (1910.) te stavljanja istog pod vodstvo tzv. Seniorata 1913. godine. U svim je zbivanjima istaknuto mjesto biskupa Mahnića kao značajnog pokretača.Article writes about Croatian catholic movement (HKP) from the beginning till the 1st world war. Everything starts with First Croatian catholic meeting in Zagreb in year 1900. By its conclusions Croatian catholic publishing society runs catholic newspaper Hrvatstvo in Zagreb 1904. In a meanwhile Antun Mahnić, bishop of Krk, starts with a magazine for christen philosophy called Hrvatska straža. In the same time he initiates founding student catholic magazines and societies all over the Monarchy. Later Mahnić initiates Pius society, which fruit was week newspaper Jutro. There were some struggles between the group around Hrvatstvo, who founded new political party, and the group around Jutro. The crucial year for the Movement was year 1910, when Croatian catholic peoples union established and Hrvatstvo with its party disappeared. HKP became stronger and soon was run by new leadership – Seniorat. Till the beginning of the First World War, HKP has about 5 000 members in different kinds of basic societies in cities and villages