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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA GRAECO-CATHOLICA VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1 / 2005  
         
  Article:   THE LAST MISSIONARY OF TURKISH TIMISOARA, THE OBSERVANT FRANCISCAN LODOVICO DA RAGUSA .

Authors:  ISTVÁN GYÖRGY TÓTH. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The last missionary of Turkish Timişoara, the Observant Franciscan Lodovico da Ragusa. Lodovico da Ragusa, (1667– 1738), an Observant Franciscan from the city-state Ragusa (Dubrovnik) was the last missionary working in Timisoara under the Ottoman rule. This Franciscan friar was parish priest at Belgrade, then a military chaplain of Czech and German soldiers. In 1703 he was sent by the Ragusan Franciscan superiors as missionary to Bulgaria, to Plovdiv. However, he interrupted his journey and stayed at Timisoara,, then still in Turkish hands. From 1706 to 1712 Lodovico da Ragusa spread the Gospel in Timisoara and surroundings instead of Bulgaria, almost as in a „private mission”, in spite of the prohibitions from his superiors. He reconstructed a ruined church at Timisoara and another in Recas (Temesrékas). Because of the persecution by the Turks, Lodovico da Ragusa went to Istanbul where he got a privilege from the Grand Visier for the Catholics. In 1714 he left the mission in Timisoara, he went first into Bulgaria and then returned to Ragusa. He served as the guardian of the Franciscan convent of Stagno, where he died in 1738. His passionate and detailed letters give a very interesting image of the population under Ottoman rule.  
         
     
         
         
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