Mihovil ‘Mijo’ Sučić

Franciscan priest, physician and surgeon. As an educated priest, he had to obtain special consent study medicine and surgery in Padua (Italy), and completed the studies in 1850. Upon return to Bosnia, he became the official physician not only of the Franciscans, but also of the local people. He practised all over Bosnia and a part of Herzegovina. He is considered one of the first surgeons of Bosnia & Herzegovina.