Holy Trinity Franciscan Church and Monastery
Biserica și Mănăstirea Franciscană
Holy Trinity Franciscan Church and Monastery
Biserica și Mănăstirea Franciscană
Original function:
church and monastery
Address:
Strada Vasile Alecsandri 1
Historical Hungarian county:
Fogaras
GPS coordinates:
45.8423076093, 24.9774571342
History
The town's medieval Gothic church, originally in the care of the Franciscans, was destroyed in 1704 by the cannons of imperial general Rabutin firing from the castle. The medieval Catholic population was divided into two parts: the Saxons became Lutherans and the Hungarians became Calvinists. The church was in common use until 1666, when Prince Apafi Mihály of Transylvania banned the Lutheran priest. The Catholic faith only revived in the 18th century, because the castle captain imposed a strict ban on the order of Apafi in 1678, according to which no Catholic priest or monk could perform mass.
After 1687, when an Austrian garrison stationed in the castle, the first military chaplain arrived in the person of Melsing Atanáz, a Franciscan friar, who was authorized by Antalffi János, Bishop of Transylvania, on 15 April 1725 to perform the pastoral duties. In 1735 Boér József donated his noble mansion to the Franciscans. The Franciscan church and monastery were built on this mansion and the land belonging to it in 1737. In 1760 the whole town was destroyed by fire, when the church and the monastery also burnt to ashes. A new church and monastery were built in 1761-1780.
In 1951, the Franciscans were taken into custody or taken to a forced residence. From 1951 to 1972 the parish was run by diocesan priests. Between 1972 and 1997, the Franciscans were again active in Fogaras. From 1 August 1997, the Franciscans handed over the church and monastery to the Archdiocese of Gyulafehérvár.
The elementary school in Fogaras was founded in 1747, when the head of the monastery was Fr. Kapp Sámuel, and was run by the Franciscans. The school was initially housed in a house rented by the monks, but in 1884-85, with the financial support of the Franciscan Order and the parents, a new elementary school was built and blessed by Fr. Simon Jenő on 29 November 1885. It was nationalised in 1948. Since 5 April 2004 it is again owned by the parish. It currently houses a Romanian-language kindergarten.
The monastery has a Hungarian-language kindergarten and a three-year post-secondary hospital nursing school.
The main altar remains of the old equipment. Above the pulpit is a gilded statue of the Archangel St Michael. The organ was built in 1895. In the inner courtyard of the monastery, two sundials show the time from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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