History · XX century · Ljubuški
Leo 'Grgo' Petrović
1883 — 1945 · lived 62 years
Historian and Franciscan monk. Born near Ljubuški, he studied in Mostar but completed his education at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland in 1904. At the same institution, under the mentorship of Prince Maximilian of Saxony, he earned his Ph.D. on 31 January 1908, becoming one of the first in Bosnia & Herzegovina to do so.
He researched the Bogumils, Church of Bosnia and its connection to the catholic church. One of his major works “Krstjani Crkve bosnanske - Christians of the Bosnian Church” was only published in 1953, after his death. During WW2, he was one of the few catholic priests who openly opposed the prosecution of non-Croats.
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