Primča Vas (; ) is a small village south of Ambrus in the

Municipality of Ivančna Gorica The Municipality of Ivančna Gorica (; ) is a municipality in the traditional region of Lower Carniola in central Slovenia. The seat of the municipality is the town of Ivančna Gorica. Ivančna Gorica became a municipality in 1995. Settlements I ...

in central

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. The area is part of the historical region of

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. The municipality is now included in the

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Church

The church in Primča Vas is dedicated to the

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and

John the Baptist John the Baptist ( – ) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy, John the Immerser in some Baptist ...

. Its origins go back to a vow made during the Second World War by a local man, Jože Hočevar, that he would build a roadside

chapel-shrine A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mount ...

if he survived the war. Although he survived the war, until his death in 1974 he was unable to obtain permission from the communist authorities to build the shrine. After Slovenia gained independence in 1991, Hočevar's family built the church to honor his wish, and it was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop of Ljubljana

Alojz Uran Alojz Uran or Alojzij Uran (22 January 1945 – 11 April 2020) was a Slovenian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Archbishop of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, from 4 December 2004 till 28 November 2009, when he resigned due ...

in 1993.

References

External links

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Primča Vas on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica {{IvančnaGorica-geo-stub