Odnos sestre Amadeje Pavlović, poglavarice Hrvatske provincije Družbe Milosrdnih sestara svetoga Križa, prema komunističkim vlastima u Jugoslaviji
THE ATTITUDE OF SISTER AMADEJA PAVLOVIĆ, THE PROVINCIAL SUPERIOR OF THE SISTERS OF MERCY OF THE HOLY CROSS, TOWARD THE COMMUNIST AUTHORITIES IN YUGOS

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author, on the basis of original archival documents, presents the relations between Sister Amadeja Pavlović (1895-1971), the superior of the Croatian province of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross and the communist authorities in Yugoslavia. Since the person and achievements of sister Amadeja Pavlović are for the most part unknown by the wider public, her biography is quickly sketched out, and accordingly most attention is paid to her service as provincial superior (1943-1955). Following that, a critical analysis is undertaken of her attitudes and actions with regard to her relations to the communist authorities. In the first thematic part the author presents her struggle against the seizure of property from the sisters which they obtained legally, a matter on which she was prepared to compromise with the authorities by surrendering to them a part of the property in order to preserve their main convent and certain other homes. Following this the author deals thematically with Pavlović’s struggle against the prohibition of wearing habits to those sisters who were employed in state services, something which she emphatically opposed because there was no legal ground for such a measure. The persisted in this struggle because she saw this prohibition of wearing habits while employed in state service as only one of many attacks of the Yugoslav communists against the Church and the order. Due to her unique qualities, she is an especially distinctive example of the inhuman actions carried out toward the sisters in the Niš hospital, while at the end of the article brief mention is made of some other, minor problems faced by Sister Amadeja.

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