摘要：During the past centuries clerics played an important role in daily life of the Croatian community in Venice. Among these clerics one can find many tertiaries coming from the eastern Adriatic coast and this contribution is dealing with them. This article is based on analysis of primary sources (last wills and testaments) from State Archives of Venice (Archivio di Stato di Venezia), embracing a wide period from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. On the basis of the aforementioned sources author analyzes activities of the Croatian tertiaries, their origin, social and material status. Moreover, author tries to reveal their family ties, as well as their integration into daily religious life of the contemporary Venice. Thus, analyzed source enable researcher to follow and reconstruct private and public life path of the Croatian tertiaries in Venice. Mostly, they were elder persons, quite often widowers without any close relatives, who decided to dedicate their last years to the pious vows in the homes of the Sisters of the Third Order. They predominantly originated from Dalmatia and Boka Kotorska, and most of them came from the poor non noble immigrants social strata. Consequently, they did not have much property, and their daily life was tightly oriented towards Church, ecclesiastical institutions and clerics. Therefore, in their last wills – contrary to the testaments of other Croatian immigrants – one can note that there is no mention of the members of family or other relatives, while pious legacies represent majority of their bequests. Still, Croatian tertiaries are also a part of Venetian ecclesiastical history. Namely, their daily life was completely interwoven with Venetian religious daily practice, and as such they certainly represented a notable group within tertiaries' community. As such they are an important component in the complex investigation of numerous ties between Croatia and Venice throughout the history.
关键词：Venice; Venetian Republic; eastern Adriatic coast; migrations; tertiaries; ecclesiastical history; late middle ages; early modern period.
