CHURCH OF ST. FLORIAN – in Idrijske Krnice, St. Florian (4th of May) has been completely “naturalized” as its popular patron and guardian. It is for this reason that the villagers had rearranged the former Italian military warehouse into the saint’s chapel many years ago. A congregation of around 7000 people attended the solemn consecration and first holy mass on 5 May 1968. After a lapse of three decades, churchgoers opted for a completely new construction, so that from 2001 they have congregated in the brand new, modernly designed church of their bellowed guardian. Each year they solemnly celebrate the first Sunday after 4 May as Florian’s Sunday, which attracts a considerable number of visitors, among them the Spodnja Idrija fire brigade in their splendid uniforms.
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