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Karlobag (Municipality, Lika-Senj County, Croatia)

Flag of Karlobag - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 August 2008

Presentation of Karlobag
Flag of Karlobag
Coat of arms of Karlobag

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Presentation of Karlobag

Karlobag is a town established by the Austrian Emperor Charles IV as the ending point of the road from hinterland to coast built by him through the Velebit mountains, as the shortest road from Gospić to the sea and access to the salt-producing Pag island producing salt, therefore the name Karlobag, "Charles' Pag". Today the municipality have barely over 1,000 inhabitants.

Željko Heimer, 7 September 2003

Flag of Karlobag

The symbols of Karlobag are described in the Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Karlobag, adopted on 26 January 2006 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 3 February 2006 in the County official gazette Županijski glasnik Ličko-senjske županije, No. 1. The descriptions are repeated in Article 4 of the current Municipality Statutes Statut Općine Karlobag, adopted on 24 July 2009 by the Municipality Assembly and published on 17 August 2009 in Županijski glasnik Ličko-senjske županije, No. 14.

The symbols were designed by the Heraldic Art d.o.o. company, from Rijeka.

The flag is in proportions 1:2, blue with the coat of arms, bordered yellow, in the middle.

Željko Heimer, 5 December 2009

Coat of arms of Karlobag

Coat of arms of Karlobag - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 August 2008

The coat of arms is "Azure St. Charles Borromeo clad argent with a chasuble gules edged and ornamented with a Latin cross or issuant from a cloud in base holding a cross or in his dexter and a monstrance in front of him in his sinister, crowned also or".

Charles Borromeo (1538-1584), Archbishop of Milan, was one of the strongest supporters of the reforms decided during the Council of Trento (the Counter Reformation). Charles belonged to an old noble family from Milan and was the nephew of Pope Pius IV (Jean-Ange de Medicis, 1499-1565, Pope in 1559 and president of the last session of the Coucil of Trento in 1562-63). At the age of 22, Charles was appointed Cardinal. After the closure of the Council of Trento, Charles applied the reforms in his own bishopric : he founded a seminary, restored churches and monasteries, suppressed all kind of abuse and called regularly for councils and synods to keep the reform alive. He defended the rights and privileges of the church in Lombardy against the King of Spain and behaved courageously during the black plague epidemics in 1576. Charles created several brotherhoods and religious associations and encouraged massive processions and pigrimages, especially to the Holy Shroud in Torino. He was canonized in 1610.
Charles wrote several spiritual treaties and sermons, but his most famous work is the Acts, by which he organized his bishopric.

Željko Heimer & Ivan Sache, 23 August 2008