Nicholas Tavelic

In 1383, Tavelic went to serve in the Custody of the Holy Land[4] where he met the friars Deodatus Aribert of Rodez, Peter of Narbonne [de] and Stephen of Cuneo.

Five centuries later, in 1880, Antun Josip Fosco, the Bishop of the Diocese of Šibenik, started the procedure for the Holy See for the formal beatification of Tavelic.

By a special decree, Pope Leo XIII recognized his ancient cultus for the Šibenik Diocese in 1889 and for the entire Franciscan Order in 1898.

The four friars were canonized together by Pope Paul VI in front of 20,000 Croats in Vatican City, on June 21, 1970, with their conjoined feast day being 14 November.

[6] There is Croatian National Shrine of St. Nicholas Tavelic (hr) in Franciscan monastery and St. Francis church in Šibenik, Croatia.

[7] Parish was established on 29 June 1939 and foundation stone for a church was consecrated by auxiliary bishop of Zagreb Josip Lach on 16 November 1941.

Churches abroad can be found in Hurlingham, Buenos Aires in Argentina, Montreal and Winnipeg[10] in Canada, Melbourne[11] and Sydney in Australia and Tomislavgrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Ruins of church and Franciscan monastery of St. Mary in Bribir , where Tavelic became a monk.
The courtyard of the former Mount Zion Monastery of the Franciscan friars in Jerusalem, where St. Nikola lived.
Croatian National Shrine of St. Nicholas Tavelic in Šibenik.
Side-altar dedicated to Saint Nicholas Tavelic in the Franciscan Church of Šibenik , Croatia.
Statue of St. Nikola Tavelić at the Franciscan Ad Coenaculum Monastery in Mount Zion, Jerusalem. A gift of Croats from the homeland and the world in 2020.