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350 years of existence of Hvar Benedictine monastery The renowned house where Hvar’s nobleman Hanibal Lucić was born in 1485, will become a Benedictine monastery less than two centuries later, and a home to a Church of St. John the Baptist and St. Anthony the Abbot. City initiatives to build the monastery appeared already in 1534, but we consider it was established in 1664, when thanks to the Bishop Milani two nuns came to Hvar from Pag and started monastery activities. Although the male and female Benedictine order follow the same rules, the concept of a closed space is more associated to the female one. According to the common opinion, the order of Benedictines is among the strictest, but the nuns would not agree with that, considering there are other strict habitus orders such as the Carmelite sisters and the Poor Clares. In 1836 the Hvar Commune asked the Benedictines to establish a girls’ public school. As the Benedictine Order considers idleness to be the enemy of the soul, nuns have always dealt with useful activities and spent their days in change of work and prayer. They ran a nursery school, dedicated themselves to the production of the Mass vestments, knitting…and to the fine art of making lace from agave leaves, which is protected as an intangible cultural heritage of Croatia. Although Hvar monastery is youngest among eight existing women’s monasteries on our coast, it boasts an extremely valuable cultural and sacral heritage. Its facilities also include “Hanibal Lucić” museum founded in 1986, whose lineup consists of carefully selected sacral art and objects. Among valuable paintings there are The Adoration of the Magi from the 15th/16th century, painted in tempera on wood, and the The Assumption of Mary from the 18th century (oil on copper). The collection also contains polychrome wooden sculptures of saints from the 17th and 18th century, liturgical vessels made of silver, various reliquaries, valuable items made of silk and Mass vestments. A TRUE QUEEN OF ISLAND’S ROCKS However, in addition to these undeniably precious objects, there is one jealously guarded under the glass, which attracts particular attention. It’s a unique agave lace! Its manufacture is a rather laborious task – the nuns must use special gloves to prevent swelling and itching of hands, and work with carefully prepared agave threads in humid weather because cold dry air makes them brittle. Because of its beauty, agave lace was already in 19th century known outside Hvar. Nowadays it is a decent autochtonous gift for any occasion – in particular formal ones. For example, the Agave lace was given to Pope John Paul II, and the Coat of Arms of Pope made from agave threads was donated to Pope Benedict. President Ivo Josipovic gave the Hvar lace to Pope Francis.
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350 godina benediktinskog samostana u Hvaru Znamenita kuća u kojoj se 1485. godine rodio hvarski vlastelin Hanibal Lucić, nešto manje od dva stoljeća kasnije postat će benediktinskim samostanom, a u sklopu nekadašnje obiteljske palače Lucićevih svoj dom će pronaći i crkva Sv. Ivana Krstitelja i Sv. Antuna Opata. Gradske inicijative za izgradnju samostana javljaju se već 1534. godine, no godinom osnutka smatramo 1664., kada su iz Paga u Hvar zaslugom biskupa Milanija došle dvije redovnice kako bi samostan mogao započeti s djelovanjem. Iako za benediktinski muški i ženski red vrijede ista pravila, koncept zatvorenog prostora ipak više vežemo za ženski. Uvriježeno je mišljenje da je red benediktinki među najstrožima, no same se redovnice ne bi s time složile, s obzirom da postoje i drugi redovi sa strogim habitusom, kao što su karmelićanke i klarise. Godine 1836. hvarska komuna zatražila je od benediktinki da osnuju i žensku pučku školu, a kako red dokolicu smatra neprijateljem duše, redovnice su se oduvijek bavile korisnim aktivnostima i dane provodile u izmjeni molitve i rada. Vodile su svojedobno i dječji vrtić, bavile se izradom misnog ruha, pletenjem…te unikatnim ručnim radom – stvaranjem jedinstvene čipke od niti agave, koja je zaštićena kao nematerijalno kulturno dobro RH. Hvarski samostan najmlađi je među 8 postojećih ženskih samostana diljem naše obale, no diči se izuzetno dragocjenom kulturnom 350 godina benediktinskog samostana u Hvaru i sakralnom baštinom. U njegovu sklopu je i muzej „Hanibal Lucić“ osnovan 1986. godine, čija se postava sastoji od probranih crkvenih umjetnina i predmeta. Među vrijednim slikama izdvajamo: Poklonstvo kraljeva iz 15./16. stoljeća, rađenu u tehnici tempere na drvu, te Uzašašće Marijino iz 18. stoljeća naslikano uljem na bakru. Zbirka sadrži i drvene polikromirane skulpture svetaca iz 17. i 18. stoljeća, te liturgijsko posuđe od srebra, raznovrsne relikvijare, vrijedne radove od svile i crkveno ruho. ISTINSKA KRALJICA OTOČKOG KAMENA No, uz ove nedvojbeno dragocjene predmete, jedan, ljubomorno čuvan pod staklom, ipak privlači posebnu pozornost. Riječ je o jedinstvenoj čipki izrađenoj od niti agave! Koliko je mukotrpna njena izrada, najbolje znaju same redovnice, koje se moraju služiti posebnim rukavicama kako ne bi došlo do oticanja i svrbeža ruku, a prethodno pomno pripremljene niti se moraju plesti za vlažna vremena, kako bi se spriječilo njihovo pucanje. Zbog svoje je ljepote agavina čipka već u 19. stoljeću bila poznata i izvan Hvara, a dan danas predstavlja dostojan izvorni poklon za svaku priliku. Primjerice, čipka od agave poklonjena je papi Ivanu Pavlu II., Papinski grb od agavinih niti poklonjen je papi Benediktu, a predsjednik Ivo Josipović poklonio je Hvarsku čipku papi Franji.