ON NATIONAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS IN THE DEMANDS FOR THE AFFIRMATION OF THE GLAGOLITIC LITURGY IN THE CROATIAN LANDS FROM THE MID19TH CENTURY UNTIL THE BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Sa？etak Author analyses national and political aspects within demands of the Croatian and Slavonian counties’ assemblies that were addressed to Juraj Haulik, arch-bishop of Zagreb diocese and cardinal, regarding introduction of Old-Church-Slavonic liturgy in the Triune Kingdom in the years 1863 and 1864. These demands were followed by similar requests in Croatia and Dalmatia, and consequently its recognition in Bosnia and Herzegovina at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century. Regardless the fact that these demands covered different political entities, and that the arguments for the recognition of the Old-Church-Slavonic liturgy were diverse, author concludes that this phenomenon should not be seen only within framework of ecclesiastical history. Namely, author maintains that these events should be regarded also as a political phenomenon with emphasized national-integrative characteristics. This conclusion can be corroborated by the fact that all these demands comprised territories that were part of the Croatian national, territorial and political aspirations regarding formation of a unified national state. Moreover, such conclusion can be corroborated also by the fact that the Croatian episcopate in their pleas to the Holy See, regarding the scope of the Old-ChurchSlavonic liturgy, claimed that they were ecclesiastical representatives of all the Croatian lands. Therefore, with such an interpretation author suggests that this historiographical issue should be viewed within a broader framework of Croatian national and integrative processes of the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century