The exceptionally valuable sacral complex of SVETICE, located above sunny orchards and vineyards, dominates the entire region. For centuries, it has been a shrine for the faithful, but also a shrine of Croatian history, art and culture. There used to be three chapels here, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to Saints Margaret and Catherine. Hence the very name of the place (svetice means holy women). The present-day church was built later. Stjepan Frankopan, the last descendent of the Ozalj line of the Frankopans, was buried in the church. The first part of the monastery was built in 1672 when the Paulists came to Svetice after fleeing from Kamensko before the Turks. It was completed in 1660 primarily trough the efforts of its first and long-time prior, Ivan Belostenac, who was a prominent lexicographer and writer. His magnificent three-dialect dictionary Gazophylacium was written under the roof of this monastery. Over the decades, Ivan Belostenac collected and stored a treasure of Croatian linguistic diversity with scientific commitment and poetic inspiration. Prominent among the exceptionally valuable inventory of the Baroque style, are the hand-carved choir pews. The main and side altars, pulpits, organs, church vessels and paintings, represent an invaluable heritage from Paulist artist, both know and unknown. When passing trough the church, drawn in by the luxuriously rendered and shining main altar, it seems that as though the pages of a richly illustrated book on the history of art from the mid-seventeenth to late eighteenth century are being turned. Here one can see the best works of the famous Paulist painters Ivan Ranger and Gabrijel Taller.