Lasso al mio padre spirituale da Cattaro … Spiritual Persons from Kotor in Venice According to the Testaments of Croatian Emigrants (14th – 17th Century)

Središnja tema priloga duhovne su osobe iz grada Kotora u Mlecima, njihovo djelovanje (privremeno ili trajnije) u gradu svetoga Marka, kao i njihovi prinosi crkvenim vezama između dviju jadranskih obala. Rad se zasniva na raščlambi izvorne arhivske građe pohranjene u Državnom arhivu u Mlecima (Archivio di Stato di Venezia, fond: Notarile testamenti), kao i na uporabi dosadašnjih spoznaja historiografije. U radu se, tragom oporučnih spisa hrvatskih iseljenika (uključivo i duhovne osobe iz Kotora) razmatra vremenski okvir njihova djelovanja, mjesta stanovanja i djelovanja (župe) te posebice njihova uključenost u nekoć brojnu i društveno važnu hrvatsku zajednicu u Mlecima.The central topic of this article is persons from Kotor (Cattaro) who lived and worked in Venice. The author used all the relevant historiographical literature regarding emigrants from Kotor in Venice, as well as the archival sources – especially notarial testaments of people from Kotor and other Eastern-Adriatic communities, which are kept in the State Archives in Venice. On the basis of the archival sources, the author analyzes the time frame when the spiritual persons from Kotor were noted in the preserved Venetian sources, what titles they had, where did they live and what were their activities in Venice. The author has analyzed in detail the last wills of clergymen from Kotor, as well testaments of other emigrants from Kotor in which priests and monks from Kotor are mentioned. In the end, the author concludes that community of emigrants from Kotor in Venice played an important role regarding the history of Croatians in Venice, and within this history spiritual persons from Kotor had a special place