The Church of St. Chrysogonus () is a Roman Catholic church located in

Zadar Zadar ( , ), historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian, ; see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited city in Croatia. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar ...

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, named after

Saint Chrysogonus Saint Chrysogonus () is a saint and martyr of ancient Rome venerated by the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Chrysogonus was martyred at Aquileia, probably during the Diocletianic Persecution (303–311 AD), was buried ther ...

, the

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of the city. The Romanesque church was consecrated by Lampridius, Archbishop of Zadar, in 1175. Built at the site of a Roman emporium, it replaced the Church of Saint

Anthony the Hermit Anthony the Hermit (c. 468 – c. 520), also known as Anthony of Lérins, is a Christian who is venerated as a saint. He was born in the ancient Roman province of Pannonia Valeria (now Hungary), then part of the Hunnic Empire. When he was eight ye ...

and is the only remaining part of a large medieval

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abbey. In 1387,

Elizabeth of Bosnia Elizabeth of Bosnia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Elizabeta Kotromanić, Јелисавета Котроманић ; ; ; – January 1387) was queen consort of Kingdom of Hungary, Hungary and Croatia in personal union with Hungary, Croat ...

, the murdered

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of Hungary and Dalmatia, was secretly buried in the church, where her body remained for three years until being moved to the

Székesfehérvár Basilica The Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary () was a basilica in Székesfehérvár (), Hungary. From the year 1000 until 1527, it was the site of the coronation of the Hungarian monarch. After the Ottomans occupied the city in 1543 ...

. The construction of a

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began in 1485, but was abandoned in 1546 and never finished.

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