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4 unusual facts about Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary


Didak Buntić

That same year he became the head of the Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and moved to Mostar.

Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

As part of re-establishing normal church structures, the bishops worked to transfer parishes from the Franciscans to the diocesan clergy, but friars resisted, and in the 1940s, the two Franciscan provinces still held 63 of 79 parishes in the dioceses of Vrhbosna and Mostar.

Friar Anđeo Zvizdović of the Monastery in Fojnica received the oath on 28 May 1463 at the camp of Milodraž.

The original edict is still kept in the Franciscan Catholic Monastery in Fojnica.



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