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Facing the nearby altar, on the right look for the monument to
Josip Jela
č
i
ć
,
the states-
man whose statue adorns Zagreb's main square. Remember that Jela
č
i
ć
gained fame fight-
ing against the Hungarians during the Habsburg era; the monument explains that his efforts
allowed Zagreb to become an archbishopric, increasing its independence. But the large al-
tar next to him celebrates three early Hungarian sainted kings, who (back when Croatia was
part of Hungary, centuries before Jela
č
i
ć
) founded this church. And so, in an almost too-
on-the-nose illustration of the complex layers of history in this part of the world, an “anti-
