Franjevački samostan i crkva Sv. Marije u podgrađu Cetini pod Sinjem (primjer povijesnoga diskontinuiteta)
Franciscan friary and the church of St. Mary in the Sinj suburb of Cetina: an example of historical discontinuity

Summary/Abstract: This essay, based on historical sources and Croatian historiography, confirms the existence of medieval Cetina, a suburb below the southern city walls of Vsinj (medieval Sinj) that was the location of a Franciscan friary with an older church, of St. Mary (Marija) and a more recent church, of St. Catherine (Katarina). The existence of this monastery eliminates the possibility of a Franciscan friary in the village of Cetina near Vrlika. The friary of Cetina at the foot of the walls of Vsinj belonged to the western part of the Bosnian vikarija, on the territory of which the Franciscan Province of Bosnia Croatia was founded in 1514 . During the fifteenth century, the friary was the centre of the Cetina kustodija. The friary was founded in 1357 with the support of Ivan Nelipčić and it was continually materially backed up by the leaders of the Cetina nobility, mainly the Nelipčić and the Talovac families. It began to decline with the Ottoman invasion in the Cetina region in the second half of the fifteenth century, to virtually disappear with the Ottoman occupation of Sinj in the early sixteenth century. In the early modern era, the friary disappeared from the collective memory, so in the seventeenth century the Franciscans of Bosnia Argentina erected a new friary in the town of Sinj. They made no mention of the old friary of Cetina, located in another part of the city, but rather credited their existence to this area credits to migrations and the pastoral ministry they ran voluntarily in the Cetina region.

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