SUZAŠTITNIK SPLITA SV. ARNIR U KULTURNOJ BAŠTINI

Saint Rainerius (Raynerius), in Croatia also known as St. Arnir (Romagna, circa 1100 - † Dubrava, August 4th, 1180), was the archbishop of Split from 1175 to 1180. He had proven himself as a skilful diplomat. Pope Alexander III, accompanied by St. Arnir, came to Venice on 24th of March 1177 to make a truce with Roman-German emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa. He also visited the Byzantine emperor Manuel I Komnenos. He fearlessly governed his archdiocese confronting the feudal lords, the rich, the rulers and the greedy which used the poor and wanted to destroy the Church itself. He vainly tried to settle a dispute about church land on Mosor, in court and with the help of emperor Manuel Komnenos. Therefore, on the 4th of August 1180, accompanied by his entourage, he personally went to Mosor to solve the dispute with the tribe of Nikola Kačić from Omiš. Nikola Kačić’s serfs, the Reljić family, stoned him in the village Dubrava in the Poljica, and in the place where he knelt praying to the Almighty to forgive his murderers, a print of his knees remained, and water started coming out, which the people believe to be miraculous. A church was built in that place and the water pours constantly from a stone in front of the main altar. He is co-patron of Split and Split- Makarska archdiocese.