The topic of this thesis deals with the role of Marija Bistrica during the Croatian National Revival. Many Croatian intellectuals were gathering in the 1830s and 1840s with the parish priest of Marija Bistrica, Ivan Krizmanić, an excellent writer and translator. As he himself was interested in events of the revival movement, patriotic Croatian intellectuals and followers of the revivalist idea and later of the Illyrian movement were regular guests at the parish court. The Illyrians were members of various social groups that had a common goal: resistance against Hungarianisation, the struggle for municipal rights and a greater degree of autonomy for the Croatian countries within the Habsburg Monarchy. One of the most important tasks was to create a national language as a confirmation of national identity. Krizmanić had a large circle of friends and visitors, and in this paper Ljudevit Gaj, Stanko Vraz, Vatroslav Lisinski, Eduard Fink, Antun Kerschhoffer and Dragojla Jarnević are in the foreground. He discussed political and social developments with them and supported them in their actions in this turbulent time, which was marked by the movement of national awakening and the formation of the Croatian national idea.