Vramec Antun: Postila

Antun Vramec: Postilla Reprint from 1586. 

Reprint from 1586. Special editions of JAZU, Institute for Scientific Work Varaždin. Bibliophile editions KS, Niz Reprinti. 238+118+77 pp. Postilla po nedelne og pogovne dni na vse leto vzeda znovič spravlena by Anton Vramac of the Holy Scriptures to the doctor and parish priest of Varaždin (1586), is a collection of sermons in two parts, the first of which contains Sunday sermons and long sermons for holidays throughout the year. Vramec had problems with both works, mainly because of his free-thinking and critical attitude towards the contemporary society and church hierarchy; but apart from the fact that both of his works were printed in the Protestant printing house of Joannes Manlius, the oft-repeated thesis about the alleged connection with the Protestant movement has not been confirmed. Although Vramč's texts were not written with a literary purpose, they occupy a prominent place in the history of Croatian Kajkavian literature. Downloaded from www. enciklopedija.hr

Vramec, Antun (Anton), Croatian chronicler and religious writer (Ormož or surroundings, Štajerska, 1538 – Varaždin, 1588). He began studying theology in 1558 in Vienna. Year 1561/62. he left the city due to the plague epidemic and went to Rome, where in 1565–67 was chaplain of the Institute of St. Jeronimo and in 1567 he obtained a doctorate in theology. After arriving in Croatia, he was first a canon of the Zagreb chapter, and in 1569 he became the parish priest of St. Brand on Grič. Year In 1573, he was appointed archdeacon of Varaždin and then of Bekšina and Dubica, and he served as parish priest in Brežice, Stenjevac and Varaždin, where he remained until his death. Contrary to church regulations, he had a family, a wife and a son, whom he did not want to give up, so he was suspended in 1578, and in 1582 he officially lost church honors and privileges. Vramec played an extremely important role in the development of Croatian literature in the northern, Kajkavian region. His first work, Kronika vezda znovič made short in Slovenian according to D. Antol Pope Vramce canon of Zagreb (1578) was the second author's text in Kajkavian literary language after Pergošić's Decretum (1574). In it, he described events from the beginning of the world to 1578, drawing information from many Croatian and European chronicle sources, and independent descriptions of events close to the author in time are considered particularly valuable. It is written in simple language, as an educational work intended for a wide readership. Only two copies have been preserved, the one from Ljubljana and the one from Zagreb. The second work, Postilla po nedelne i po godovne dni na vse leto vezda znovič spravlena according to Anton Vramac of the Holy Scriptures to the doctor and parish priest of Varaždin (1586), is a collection of sermons in two parts, the first of which contains Sunday sermons and long sermons for holidays throughout the year. Vramec had problems with both works, mainly because of his free-thinking and critical attitude towards the contemporary society and church hierarchy; but apart from the fact that both of his works were printed in the Protestant printing house of Joannes Manlius, the oft-repeated thesis about the alleged connection with the Protestant movement has not been confirmed. Although Vramč's texts were not written with a literary purpose, they occupy a prominent place in the history of Croatian Kajkavian literature. They were also echoed in the works of later writers and historians (J. Ratkaj, J. Bedeković, B. A. Krčelić, T. Mikloušić, Ivan Švear, D. Demetra and A. Šenoa), and most of all in P. Vitezović Ritter's Kronica aliti spomenu ovejs svieta vikov (1696).