The foundation muniment and the cornerstone

Square · King Petra Krešimir IV square, Pag

The foundation of the new town of Pag on May 18, 1443, was witnessed by a public document. The public document was published in 1775 by the famous Jesuit Daniele Farlati, in his famous erudite work on the church history of Croatian regions, llyricum sacrum (eng. St. Illyricus). As can be read from the document, this solemn act and the most important event in the millennial history of Pag was attended by the most excellent city officials: the duke, city judges, Zadar archbishop, Pag archpriest with Pag capitulum, clergy, city noblemen and many citizens. The act of founding itself began, according to the scribe of the document, around the third hour, and that is to say around the third church or canonical hour, because the life of people in the Middle Ages was based on "prayer time." The time of prayer is constituted of seven canonical hours (horae canonicae), and in May, the third canonical hour (hora tertia) was about nine o'clock in the morning. On that day, the foundation for the Great or Congregational Church, the city walls, and the great tower from the northeast were laid. The "Land Gate" was also located there shortly after, and thus the long-term construction of the new city began.

On that occasion, a stone block with the coat of arms of the Duke of Pag, Pietro Falier (Faletra), and the inscription "Petro Faletro comite coepta fvit vrbs 1443" (eng. “For Peter Falier, the city was founded in 1443”). The block was subsequently installed, above the main northeastern Land Gate (Porta terraferma), however it was removed during the demolition of that part of the Pag walls in 1855. It was also fractured and built into the foot of the Stone Cross near the Church of St. Trinity, and from there it was transferred to St. Juraj's Church in 1978.