Devotion to Our Lady of Lourdes in Croatian Music Composition

Pobožnost Majci Božjoj Lurdskoj bila je i ostala vrlo obljubljena u hrvatskom narodu, pa su mnoga pokoljenja hrvatskih glazbenika obogaćivala riznicu hrvatske marijanske glazbe, nadahnuti upravo pobožnošću prema njoj. Dovoljno je u tom smislu ukazati na činjenicu da se u 22 molitvenika i 22 pjesmarice od 1895. do 2006. godine sačuvala 21 glazbena jedinica posvećena Majci Božjoj Lurdskoj. Neke su od tih popijevaka preuzete iz inozemnih izvora, druge su pak nastale kreativnošću pobožnoga puka ili skladatelja cecilijanskoga i postcecilijanskoga razdoblja, kao i modernih kantautora.Devotion to Our lady of Lourdes has always been, and still is, cherished by the Croatian people, and so many generations of Croatian musicians have enriched the treasury of Croatian Marian hymns with songs inspired by their devotion to Her. As proof thereof, it suffices to point out that in twenty-two prayer books and twenty-two hymn books from the year 1895 to 2006, twenty-one canticles have been preserved which were dedicated to Our Lady of Lourdes. Some of these were taken from foreign sources, others came about through the creativity of reverent common folk and composers of the Cecilian and post-Cecilian periods as well as of modern songwriters