Družba bačkih siromašnih sestara učiteljica od Naše Gospe u prvih deset godina svoje povijesti 1931. – 1941.
CONGREGATION OF BAČKA PAUPER SISTERS PRECEPTRESES OF OUR LADY IN THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF ITS HISTORY (1931 – 1941)

Summary/Abstract: The article is based on the original archive material which shows life and activities of nuns from the Kalocha Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady in Backa after the First World War, through the analysis of the causes which had brought to secession of Backa monasteries from the Kalocha Congregation and the establishment of the Congregation of Bac Pauper Sisters Preceptresses of Our Lady. Particular emphasis has been placed on the political and social situation in Backa and the Croatian-Hungarian relations, because they strongly influenced the internal life of Sisters’ communities and greatly contributed to conflicts and problems which then resulted in the establishment of the Backa Congregation on January the First 1931. The article then analyses the development of the newly founded nuns’ community through its first ten years, until 1941 when, again due to the political situation and the Croatian-Hungarian conflict, there arose new problems and an attempt of rescission of the Backa Congregation, that is to say, its annexation to the Kalocha Congregation. This resulted in the removal of the main residence of the Backa Congregation from Subotica to Zagreb (where it has remained to this day) and the omission of the regional mark from its name that has since then been read as the Congregation of Pauper Sisters Preceptresses of Our Lady (now the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady). In all these incidents, the important role was played by Sister Annunciata Rosa Kopunovic, the first General Superior of the Congregation, which is why the article also follows and analyses her actions and contribution to the development of the Backa Congregation in the first ten years of its history.

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