Ivan Ančić was a Croatian

Croats

Croats are a South Slavic ethnic group mostly living in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and nearby countries. There are around 4 million Croats living inside Croatia and up to 4.5 million throughout the rest of the world. Responding to political, social and economic pressure, many Croats have...

 theological writer.

He was born in Lipa near Tomislavgrad

Tomislavgrad

Tomislavgrad is a town and municipality in southwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is in the Canton 10 of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Herzegovina region.- Name :...

, and likely finished his basic education at the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena monastery in Rama where he was ordained as a priest in 1643. He attended gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Velika

Velika

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 and finished his philosophy-theology studies in Cremona

Cremona

Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

 (three years), Brixen

Brixen

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 (1650–1651) and Naples

Naples

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 (1651–1653).

In Assisi

Assisi

- Churches :* The Basilica of San Francesco d'Assisi is a World Heritage Site. The Franciscan monastery, il Sacro Convento, and the lower and upper church of St Francis were begun immediately after his canonization in 1228, and completed in 1253...

 he began his work Vrata nebeska i život vični (Heavenly Gates and Everlasting Life) in 1676 and finished it in Loreto

Loreto (AN)

Loreto is a hilltown and comune of the Italian province of Ancona, in the Marche. It is mostly famous as the seat of the Basilica della Santa Casa, a popular Catholic pilgrimage site.-Location:...

 in 1677. That same year he printed his work Ogledalo misničko in Rome

Rome

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. He wrote in the "Duvno style" of the Shtokavian dialect

Shtokavian dialect

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 using the Latin alphabet

Croatian alphabet

Gaj's Latin alphabet is a variant of the Latin script used for Croatian language. It was devised by Croatian linguist Ljudevit Gaj in 1835, based on Jan Hus's Czech alphabet....

 in which there are noticeable elements of bosančica

Bosnian Cyrillic

Bosnian Cyrillic or Croatian Cyrillic, widely known as Bosančica, is an extinct Cyrillic script, that originated in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was widely used in Bosnia and Croatia . Its name in Bosnian and Croatian is bosančica or bosanica, which can literally be translated as Bosnian script...

. His translations from Latin are still articulate examples of a good understanding of the language.

Apart from his printed works, two handwritten pieces have been preserved. The first is an autobiography

Autobiography

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 (written in 1679), while the second is a report about the Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena from 1680.

He died in Ancona

Ancona

Ancona is a city and a seaport in the Marche region, in central Italy, with a population of 101,909 . Ancona is the capital of the province of Ancona and of the region....

.

Works

• "Vrata nebeska i život vični",
• "Ogledalo misničko",
• "Svitlost karstianska i naslagaye duovno".