On the house Pia?a Muzeului (Museum Square) nr. 4 (right of the Franciscan
Church) in Cluj-Napoca is a chronogram above the entrance door:
DoMVs LaVretana
VerbI In CarnatIe VIrgIne natI
VeneratIonI
popVLI proponItVr
The Latin text translates approximately to "We propose the Laurentian
house of the Word incarnate and born of the Virgin to be venerated by the
population".
The word "VeneratIonI" in the third line is not perfectly centered. Maybe
there was a small word (that was lost over time) right of it and the
chronogram is not complete. However, the construction of the church was
completed in 1745, so maybe the missing word didn't contain any additional
numbers.
Franciscan Church
"The history of the Franciscan Church in Cluj Napoca begins in the 12th-13th
centuries: the first Christian church was built in the former square, where
the Dominican monks settled around 1420. It was rebuilt (from) the middle of
the 15th century in Gothic style.
In 1556, after the expulsion of the
monastic orders, the church was used by different Protestant cults, until
1693 when King Leopold I gave it to the Jesuits.
Since the descendants of
Saint Ignatius built their own church, the old church - with the help of the
Catholic Statute - was handed over in 1725 to the Franciscans who wanted to
return to the city (the first church of the Franciscans in Cluj Napoca was
the one in Uli?a Lupilor - today the Reformed Church in Mihail Kogalniceanu
Street - which they had to leave in 1556).
Since it was in a precarious
state, starting in 1728, the Franciscans began a campaign to restore the
church, in Baroque style, according to the spirit of the respective era. In
1745, the works were finished and, in the same year, it was consecrated by
the bishop of Transylvania, Francisc Klubusitzky, the church largely
preserving its form from then until today. [...]"
Translated from source:
www.ofm.ro/kolozsvariferencesek/biserica