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| Number: | 1354 |
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| Value: | 3.30 HRK |
| Design: | Orsat Franković, designer, Zagreb |
| Photo: | Mario Romulić and Dražen Stojčić, photographers from Osijek |
| Size: | 35.50 x 35.50 mm |
| Paper: | white 102 g, gummed |
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| Perforation: | Comb,14 |
| Technique: | Multicolored Offsetprint |
| Printed by: | AKD d.o.o., Zagreb |
| Date of issue: | 1/7/2021 |
| Quantity: | 50 000 copies per motif + 3 000 copies in common sheetlets |
Za križen (following the cross) procession is a unique phenomenon of religious and folk piety in which the family, traditional, spiritual and cultural heritage of Jelsa, Pitve, Vrisnik, Svirče, Vrbanj and Vrboska on the island of Hvar is woven.
The origin of the procession dates back to the late 15th or early 16th century and stems from the passion tradition of the Mediterranean region in which the worship of the cross has a central place, and which was nurtured by fraternities during the Middle Ages. The procession is still held today on the night between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, when an illuminated procession of the faithful departs from each village and goes through other villages in a clockwise direction, almost never meeting.
The procession is led by a cross-bearer, preceded and followed by escorts dressed in fraternal attire, and members of the closest family and lamentation singers wear black clothes as a sign of mourning and sorrow for the dead Christ. A cross-bearer can only be someone who is a local or originally related to the parish, and the schedule of the cross-bearer is entered years and decades in advance. The act of carrying the cross is related to a personal or family vow and tradition.
The central part of the procession is singing a unanimous chorus The Lamentations of the Virgin Mary, sang in a dialogue form at procession stations by two groups of singers - kantaduri and odgovoroči.
The procession Za križen is a deeply rooted tradition that was not abandoned even during the wars, and the evacuated residents of these Hvar villages held it in 1944 in the El Shatt refugee camp in Egypt. Due to its deep significance and connection with the community, the procession Za križen was inscribed in 2009 on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The Covid-19 pandemic did not prevent the continuation of tradition and the holding of processions in 2020 and 2021.
Tihana Petrović Leš, PhD
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
| Number: | UNESCO |
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| Type: | C |
| Description: | Motifs: međimurska popevka (a folk song from Međimurje), annual spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani, Za križen (following the cross) procession on the island of Hvar, art of drywall construction Author: Orsat Franković, designer from Zagreb Authors of photographs: Ivo Pervan (spring procession of Ljelje/Kraljice (queens) from Gorjani, art of drywall construction), Mario Romulić and Dražen Stojčić (Za križen procession on the island of Hvar), Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (međimurska popevka) The stamps were issued in 8-stamp sheetlets, and a common 4-stamp sheetlet with five labels was printed. Croatian Post has also issued a First Day Cover (FDC). The label with the stamp Međimurska popevka was realized in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (IEF) in Zagreb (documentary material is the musical notation for the song "Na boru popeva lepa ftičica” (A beautiful little bird sings on the pine tree); Vinko Žganec, Hrvatske pučke popijevke iz Međimurja (Croatian folk songs from Međimurje), volume XI., 1920, 1923 - 1925, 1934 - 1944; IEF rkp N 23, record no. 1033). |
| Date: | 1/7/2021 |
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