Original scientific paper
Ivo Pilar and the Franciscans of Bosnia — Consents and Conflicts. A Research Contribution
Vine MIHALJEVIĆ
; Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar, Zagreb
Abstract
From the time of his arrival to Bosnia to the beginning of World War I
(1900-1914) the relationship between Ivo Pilar and the Franciscans of
Bosnia was characterised by their common struggle within the Croatian
national community to raise the national awareness of the Catholic
Croatians, their collaboration in the sphere of education, and the creation
of a Croatian circle of laymen as a political body of the Croatian people in
Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, during World War I (1914-1918) Pilar
and the Franciscans disagreed on the political solution of the so-called
Southern-Yugoslav issue. Their disagreement peaked when the Franciscans
of Bosnia accepted the so-called May Declaration of 1917. Together with
the Bosnian archbishop Stadtler, Pilar decisively refuted the political ideas
presented in the Declaration. In the period between the end of World War
I and Pilar’s tragic death (i.e. between 1918 and 1933) his relationship with
the Franciscans was marked by the questions of Bosnia and Croatian
politics. Pilar then analysed his Bosnian experience, which — as he himself
emphasised — led him to view politics from an entirely different angle than
all the other politicians in Croatia.
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67585
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Publication date:
15.11.2006.
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