Kačić Antun: Bogoslovje diloredno

Antun Kačić: Boggoslovje dilloredno or guide in Slovene to the knowledge of the holy order

KAČIĆ, Antun (Kadčić, Cacich, Kacich, Kadcich, Kadcichius; Antonio, Antonius), archbishop and writer (Makarska, before 28. V. 1686 — Split, 7. X. 1745). He received his first education in Makarska, where he studied Latin and humanities and joined the Franciscan Order. He continued his education in Ferma in 1704–08. and in Rome 1708–11, where he studied philosophy, theology, ecclesiastical law and the Greek language at the Urbanum Institute. He was ordained a priest there in 1710, and in 1711 he obtained a doctorate in philosophy and theology, defending theses in classical philosophy and dogmatics. After completing his studies, he returned to Makarska, where he was a canon, teacher, preacher and pastor until 1714. He appears in the service of the Archbishop of Zadar, V. Zmajević, when he accompanied him on a canonical expedition to "Morlaki" in 1715. For seven years, he taught philosophy to priest trainees and moral theology to priests in Zadar and was a confessor and missionary, canon, synod examiner and archdeacon. Pope Innocent XIII. appointed him bishop of Trogir in 1721. He visited his diocese in 1723, 1726 and 1730 and spread the veneration of Ivan Trogir, the relic of which he presented to Pope Benedict XIII. Trying to restore church discipline among the clergy, he held a diocesan synod in 1724. Pope Clement XII appointed him archbishop of Split. at the end of 1730, and it was taken into possession in 1731, having previously paid 650 ducats in fees. Although he was on good terms with the Orthodox believers who came to the territory of the Archdiocese of Split before the Turks, he denied the bishops jurisdiction over them in northern Dalmatia. In 1734, he wrote a document related to the action of the Dalmatian Catholic bishops towards the Orthodox believers (published by N. Milaš in 1899). He clashed with the Great Council of Split over the competence to admit girls to the Benedictine monasteries there, and with the Chapter over the election of canons; in both disputes he had to accept the old customs. With his occupation, the Franciscan hospice on Dobro became a monastery in 1736. He paid special attention to the teaching of Glagolitic priests. While still a bishop of Trogir, he wrote a manual on moral theology in 1729, Boggoslovje dilloredno, the first work of its kind in the Croatian language, for the purposes of supplementary training for priests. In addition to fulfilling the needs of the pastoral clergy, especially in Dalmatia, and for a long time being the basic manual in the Glagolitic environment, his manual is valuable as one of the attempts to create Croatian theological terminology. During his visit to Poljici in 1733, he obtained a copy of this work for the parish priests there, and he ordered the parish priest in Prološac (Podstrana) to procure a Glagolitic missal for the parish church. His contemporaries appreciated him for his scholarship. The Archbishop of Embrun, Pierre-Guérin de Tencin, sought his opinion on the condemnation by which the provincial synod of Embrun (south-eastern France) condemned his suffragan, Jean Soanen, bishop of Senez, as a supporter of Jansenism; he confirmed the conviction in a letter from 1733. He also wrote in Croatian Cyrillic, in the Štokavian Ikavian dialect of the Makarska region in the 18th century. st., but did not accept the spelling reform Š. Budinić. He dedicated several churches in Kaštel-Stari, Suho Dolac (today Primorski Dolac) and Nevesta (near Unešić). The parish church in Tugari was built in 1739 by his order; above the main door is an inscription that mentions him, and above the inscription is a plaque with a carved image of him. He published an excerpt from his work entitled Ispitanja svarhu svetih redovah in 1764 in Ancona under his name J. Banovac.