Mary Magdalene Monastery in Porat

Source www.info-krk.com

Monastery in Porat has existed more than 500 years according to some written documents. Monks and members of RC Third Order lived there before 1480. Then a monastery was built at the place where there was originally a small chapel.

About that time a part of today’s church (built in the late Gothic style) was built and shortly after that the main altar where they put a polyptych which stands there even today and which was made by venetian great painters Girolamo and Francesco da Santacroce. On the north side of the church there is St. Nicholas altar with the statues of St. Francis and St. Anthony and on the south side St. Rocco’s altar.

In 1850 a big toš was made which was basically a mill and a press used for better and easier processing of olives. The toš was used not only by monastery but by the whole Porat and has been preserved up to the present day. The cellar of the monastery has been changed to a monasterial museum with the toš and other exhibits which testify about religious, cultural and economic presence of monks and of RC Third Order in Dubašnica, especially in Porat.

In the Glagolitic collection of stone monuments there are copies of some of the oldest and most important Croatian Glagolitic inscriptions. The franciscan members of RC Third Order has been reading, writing and singing masses over centuries, saying offices and using Glagolitic alphabet.

Numerous cultural events take place in the atrium of the monastery and inside the Church of St. Mary Magdalene as well as concerts of classical and traditional music.