Saint Catherine’s Church
Baroque Jesuit church with an illusionist painted sanctuary and noble-funded side altars.
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This guide to Saint Catherine's Church in Zagreb follows the Jesuits who arrived in the Upper Town in the early sixteen hundreds, opened a school within a year, and had a taste for performance. It moves between the plays staged in their college next door and the church they built beside it, through two fires and the noble families who paid to refit it. Best heard just inside the door, facing the altar.
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