Naslov
L'atteggiamento del vescovo di Fiume Antonio Santin nei confronti dell'autorità fascista (1933-1938)
(The bishop of Rijeka Antonio Santin (1933-1938) and the Italian fascism)

Autori
Medved, Marko

Izvornik
Studi storici (0039-3037) 53 (2012), 3; 721-752

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Antonio Santin ; diocesi di Fiume (Rijeka) ; fascismo ; lingua liturgica ; snazionalizzazione.
(Antonio Santin ; Bishopric of Rijeka (Fiume) ; Italian fascism ; liturgical language ; work against national identity.)

Sažetak
This article focuses mainly on bishop Antonio Santin’s attitude towards fascism during his five-year episcopate in Rijeka (from 1933 to 1938). In the 1950’s, some historians began accusing Santin of being too close to Mussolini’s government during his episcopate in Rijeka, and later Trieste, suggesting he was partly responsible for depriving Croatians and Slovenians of their national rights, and for their Italianization. Some elements of that criticism are still repeated by Croatian and Slovenian secular and church historians today. In Santin’s case, as with other bishops of multiethnic dioceses in this area, one must draw a careful distinction between the free decisions of the Church authority and the decisions of the public (or military) administration. One will, in some cases, find that fascism influenced the Church ; however, it should be emphasized that the Catholic hierarchy did not demand, let alone ask, that the government authorities behave unjustly toward the Slavic population as communist historiography claimed. However, Santin did accept some of the Mussolini regime’s propaganda, and responded by sending Italian priests to parishes with Slavic populations, and by imposing Latin as a liturgical language. On the other side, he did communicate in Croatian and Slovenian to believers in the hinterland, unlike other Italian bishops of Rijeka, and he increased the number of non-Italians in the cathedral chapter.

Izvorni jezik
Ita

Znanstvena područja
Teologija, Povijest

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