The Franciscan Province of St. Jerome ( hr, Franjevačka provincija Svetog Jeronima) is a Croatian province of the Order of Friars Minor which is based in Zadar and active in

Istria Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...

and

Dalmatia Dalmatia (; hr, Dalmacija ; it, Dalmazia; see #Name, names in other languages) is one of the four historical region, historical regions of Croatia, alongside Croatia proper, Slavonia, and Istria. Dalmatia is a narrow belt of the east shore of ...

. The province was founded in the Croatian lands in the Middle Ages, and its original seal dates from 1393. Notable members have included Nicholas Tavelic and

Sebastijan Slade Sebastiano Dolci ( hr, Sebastijan Dolci-Slade; 1699-1777) was a Ragusan historian and writer. In 1750 he published a biography of Saint Jerome. He joined the Franciscans at the age of 14 years, in 1744 he wrote about the Franciscan Order in Ragus ...

. In 1925, they sent a friar to the United States to aid the Croatian immigrant community, and he was stationed at Millvale, Pennsylvania at the

St. Nicholas Croatian Church St. Nicholas Croatian Church is a Roman Catholic church in Millvale, Pennsylvania, USA within the Diocese of Pittsburgh. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is noted for its murals by Maxo Vanka, painted in 1937 and 194 ...

; later another friar was sent to

McKeesport, Pennsylvania McKeesport is a city in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated at the confluence of the Monongahela and Youghiogheny rivers and within the Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 17,727 as of the 2020 census. It ...

. In 1951, they purchased a property in Washington, D.C., and Ivan Meštrović donated the St. Jerome the Priest monument for the occasion. They run 24 monasteries, including the Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi in Zadar and that of

Our Lady of Angels Our Lady of the Angel ( hr, Gospa od Anđela) is a monastery that is located near Orebić, a town on the Pelješac peninsula, in the Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia. The monastery was built at the end of the 16th century under the Republic of ...

near Orebić.

Conventuals

There are two eponymous but separate Provinces of the Order of Conventual Franciscans and of the friars of the

Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance The Third Order Regular of St. Francis of Penance or simply the Third Order Regular of St. Francis ( la, Tertius Ordo Regularis Sancti Francisci) is a mendicant order rooted in the Third Order of St. Francis which was founded in 1221. The mem ...

in the same territory.

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