1345, the Venetian Monastery of St. Cosmas and Damian were destroyed, the monks captured and the archives taken away. The abbey was rebuilt after the Treaty of Zadar in 1358, when a new monastery church was built. Although the Franciscan tradition connects the beginnings of monasticism on the island with the time of St. Francis, the Franciscans first appeared on Pašman in the list of monasteries of the province around 1380. The monastery of St. Duje in Kraj was built for the Franciscans of Bosnia in 1390 near the already existing Church of St. Dujam. With the transfer of the command (church property given to the administration and lease) in 1434, and the loss of land ownership due to the Ottoman conquests, the monastery gradually weakened. Ties with Bosnia were not severed despite the 1467 decision that banned Bosnian Franciscans from staying in the monastery. The settlement that was formed around the monastery by settling the population of refugees before the Ottomans forms the core of today's place. During the French rule in Dalmatia, the abbey was abolished (1808), but the religious community was rebuilt in 1956, so that it is, to this day, the only male Benedictine monastery in Croatia. The monastery Church of St. Duje was thoroughly rebuilt in the 16th century; above the church portal there is a relief of St. Jerome, the patron saint of Dalmatia, work of A. Aleši. The Pašman Monastery of St. Cosmas and Damian was one of the centers of the spread of Glagolitic literacy in the northern Dalmatia. Numerous Glagolitic manuscripts were created in the monastery, of which the Rule of St. Benedict, whose translation from Latin into Old Slavonic was made as early as the 11th century. It is believed that it was the Pašman monks who traveled to Prague as teachers of Glagolitic and Old Slavonic. Geography With an area of 60 km2 and 70 km of indented coastline, it is one of the larger Croatian islands. It is connected to the island of Ugljan by the Ždrelac Bridge, and is separated from the mainland by the Pašman Channel, which in some places is only 2 km wide. It is also one of the islands closest to the mainland. It is located in the Zadar archipelago, between the cities of Zadar and Biograd at Sea. The Mediterranean climate has developed a rich world of flora and fauna, many species