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He was appointed pastor in Klobuk on 8 May 1917 and remained there until 15 July 1919, when he was appointed guardian of the
Franciscan friary in Mostar and a Dean of the Deanery of Mostar. After that, he was again appointed a professor at the Franciscan Theological Seminary in Mostar on 27 April
404:" (Christians of the Bosnian Church) from 1944. He was also the first historian to refer to them as Christians, as they called themselves, instead of referring to them by other ideological names. He promoted a thesis that the Bosnian Church had origins in the Catholic
512:, which they did, murdering 12 priests on 7 February 1945. Their murderous campaign against the Franciscans continued. The next day, the Partisans murdered 8 other Franciscans who returned to the friary they previously fled, as well as 5 Franciscans who hid in
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Petrović was appointed professor of theology at the
Theological Seminary in Mostar on 1 May 1907 and taught there until 8 May 1917. At the same time, from 1910 until 1916, he served as a secretary of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina. During the
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saw
Herzegovinian Franciscans as a threat to the spread of communism in Yugoslavia, as they were influential among the peasants as well as intellectuals who studied at the Franciscan schools. With the Germans retreating, the Partisans, with the
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on 12 February. They finally reached Mostar on 14 February. Petrović was murdered with six other
Franciscans from the Franciscan friary in Mostar by being shot and thrown in the
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in 1904. He took his monastic vows there on 19 October 1904 and was ordained a priest on 30 July 1905. He celebrated his first Mass on 31 July in Klobuk. Under the mentorship of
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regime of the
Independent State of Croatia, in December 1941 he told in a conversation with Ante Ciliga, that there could not be any state union with the Serbs.
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to stop killing the
Serbian Orthodox clergy, who ignored him. Petrović also helped to save Jews and the political dissidents, including the
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in 1900 and was ordained a priest in 1905. He held various monastic and ecclesiastical positions, including being a general vicar of the
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somewhere at the end of June or beginning of July 1941 and requested an end to the persecution of Serbs. Petrović also urged
General
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in 1943 and a
Provincial of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina from 1943 until 1945, when he was murdered by the communist
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Disquisitio historica in originem usus
Slavici idiomatis in liturgia apud Slavos ac praecipue Chroatos dissertatio
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Disquisitio historica in originem usus
Slavici idiomatis in liturgia apud Slavos ac praecipue Chroatos dissertatio
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Disquisitio historica in originem usus Slavici idiomatis in liturgia apud Slavos ac praecipue Chroatos dissertatio
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Disquisitio historica in originem usus Slavici idiomatis in liturgia apud Slavos ac praecipue Chroatos dissertatio
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started advancing towards Mostar in January 1945. Somewhere around that time, the Partisan leadership decided in
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in 1908. His doctoral thesis was translated into Croatian by Šime Demo and republished as a chapter titled "
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1925, where he lectured until 21 June 1926. The next day he was appointed a notary of the Bishop of
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police on 15 April, where he remained for a day and was nearly murdered. The next day, he and
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monastic order, and considered that the Bosnian Church used native language, but observed the
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Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia
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On 3 July 1943, he was elected Provincial of the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina.
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1048:[The Forgotten Chapter of Croatian Paleo-Slavic Studies: Fr. Leo Petrović].
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Petrović publicly opposed the NDH regime because it persecuted Serbs. He met with
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Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in the Second World War and the Postwar period
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on 31 January 1908. His dissertation was published later that year in Mostar.
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in Herzegovina, publishing four articles on them in the Catholic periodical "
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river. In total, the Partisans murdered 66 Herzegovinian Franciscans.
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Study of theology in the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina 1860-1945
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Studij bogoslovije u Hercegovačkoj franjevačkoj provinciji 1860.-1945
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in eastern Herzegovina. The authorities of the newly established
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Leo Petrović prvi hercegovački franjevac doktor znanosti
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1154:20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina historians
963:] (in Croatian). Sarajevo: Svjetlo riječi.
1018:The Peasant Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina
908:From the fine arts of the Bosnian Middle Ages
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1061:Marić, Ante (2019). "Dr. Fra Leo Petrović".
555:] (in Croatian). Sarajevo: Dobri pastir.
435:in April 1941, Petrović was arrested by the
972:. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
933:] (in Croatian). Mostar: FRAM – ZIRAL.
910:] (in Croatian). Zagreb: Naklada Zoro.
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902:Aleksijev Mikulić, Planinka (2004).
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1184:20th-century Roman Catholic martyrs
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445:German invasion of the Soviet Union
379:Croatian Joint-stock Printing House
369:Petrović's doctoral thesis titled "
1096:Franciscan Province of Herzegovina
510:Franciscan friary in Široki Brijeg
465:, the leader of the NDH regime in
308:Franciscan Province of Herzegovina
283:. His parents were very religious
235:The first historian to rebuke the
218:Franciscan Province of Herzegovina
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553:Christians of the Bosnian Church
1174:Martyred Roman Catholic priests
968:MacDonald, David Bruce (2002).
957:Srednjovjekovna Crkva bosanska
415:Petrović also wrote about the
377:was published in Latin by the
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1139:University of Fribourg alumni
139:Thesis on the origins of the
1044:Damjanović, Stjepan (2010).
453:Independent State of Croatia
961:The medieval Bosnian church
706:Lovrenović & Džaja 2007
332:Prince Maximilian of Saxony
186:Prince Maximilian of Saxony
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209:Franciscan and historian.
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549:Krstjani Crkve bosnanske
987:Mandić, Hrvoje (2020).
402:Krstjani Crkve bosanske
222:Diocese of Mostar-Duvno
1079:Catholic Church titles
742:Aleksijev Mikulić 2004
547:Petrović, Leo (1953).
534:Petrović, Leo (1908).
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433:invasion of Yugoslavia
375:University of Fribourg
324:University of Fribourg
267:, at the time part of
265:Bosnia and Herzegovina
212:Petrović, a native of
130:University of Fribourg
72:Bosnia and Herzegovina
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447:in June 1941 and the
302:Petrović entered the
259:Petrović was born in
1134:People from Ljubuški
1016:Sivrić, Ivo (1982).
949:Lovrenović, Dubravko
273:Herzegovinian Croats
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834:, pp. 222–223.
783:, pp. 157–161.
400:in a paper titled "
365:Historical research
271:, into a family of
207:Herzegovinian Croat
105:Cause of death
1179:Franciscan martyrs
1094:Provincial of the
882:, p. 225-227.
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226:Yugoslav Partisans
110:Yugoslav Partisans
16:Yugoslav historian
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1103:Succeeded by
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1001:Pandžić, Bazilije
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421:Kršćanska obitelj
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30:Leo Petrović
26:The Reverend
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1129:1945 deaths
1124:1883 births
781:Mandić 2020
769:Mandić 2020
730:Sivrić 1982
679:Mandić 2020
406:Benedictine
373:" from the
328:Switzerland
245:Benedictine
116:Nationality
1118:Categories
1100:1943–1945
1056:: 199–217.
890:References
856:Marić 2019
647:Marić 2019
603:Marić 2019
586:Marić 2019
574:Marić 2019
410:Roman Rite
394:Bogomilist
249:Roman Rite
237:Bogomilist
98:Yugoslavia
60:1883-02-28
502:8th Corps
460:Poglavnik
304:novitiate
297:gymnasium
285:Catholics
255:Biography
228:. During
1037:Journals
1003:(2001).
955:(2007).
506:Trebinje
437:Yugoslav
522:Neretva
518:Izbično
306:of the
289:Veljaci
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174:(1908)
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