Celebrating the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August

Celebrating the Feast of the Assumption, 15 August

And this year will be Podgorci and their guests at the feast of the Assumption on 15 August instruct the Veliko Rujno, the largest Velebit plateau situated at 900m above sea level. It is a centuries-old tradition of pilgrimage to the church of the Assumption of Mary, votive shrine Podgoraca and mountain climbers.

The custom dates back to the time when the mountain’s population lived on the Velebit mountain of Velebit and herders. In the summer months it is grazing stayed in the higher mountain, in the so-called. “Flats” which is why the church was built so high up in the mountains. Over time, the church became too small for the population of the Old Town area and the 1930 efforts known starigradskog priest Don Ante Adžije people built a new church near the previous one, and that using the old stone church that is fully built.

Although it is a way of life in this region has changed the construction of the Adriatic Highway 60-ies of the last century when the population moved to the coast and turning to tourism, retained the custom of pilgrimage to the church of the Assumption of the feast of the Assumption 15 August, and on this holiday is celebrated and Day of Starigrad.

Eucharistic celebration at the Velikom Rujnu starts at 11.00am led by the Archbishop of Zadar mons.Želimir Puljić after which it will be on the Velikom Rujnu to develop a magnificent procession.

In the evening on the waterfront starigradskoj maintains a large festival with local catering services, midnight fireworks and performance Tomislav Bralić and Intrade.

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