The Reverend Juraj Gospodnetić (9 January 1910 – 27 July 1941) was a Croatian Roman Catholic priest who was tortured and murdered by

Chetniks The Chetniks ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Четници, Četnici, ; sl, Četniki), formally the Chetnik Detachments of the Yugoslav Army, and also the Yugoslav Army in the Homeland and the Ravna Gora Movement, was a Yugoslav royalist and Serbian nationa ...

during the

Bosansko Grahovo massacre The Bosansko Grahovo massacre was a massacre of Croat civilians was committed by local Serb rebels on 27 July 1941 in the village of Bosansko Grahovo. Background On 27 July 1941, a Yugoslav Partisan-led uprising began in the area of Dvar and Bo ...

. The Holy See started the process of beatification of Father Gospodnetić on 21 December 2014 as well as the process of beatification of the other three priests of the Diocese of Banja Luka murdered in the massacres during the

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, Waldemar Maximilian Nestor, Antun Dujlović and Krešimir Barišić.

Life

Juraj Gospodnetić was born in

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on the island of

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. After graduating from elementary school in his hometown, his secondary school education was continued in

Šibenik Šibenik () is a historic city in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is a political, educational, transport, industrial and tourist center of Šibenik-Knin County, and is also the ...

. He began his theological studies in

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and finished in

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. As a deacon he was ordained on 10 April 1938 and as a priest in Zagreb on 26 June 1938. In 1939 he was appointed as parish priest of Bosansko Grahovo. During the Partisan-Chetnik uprising in western Bosnia on 27 July 1941, a group of Chetniks tortured and killed Gospodnetić as well as about 250 Catholics from the parish of Bosansko Grahovo.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gospodnetić, Juraj 1910 births 1941 deaths Croat Roman Catholic clergy from Bosnia and Herzegovina 20th-century Bosnia and Herzegovina Roman Catholic priests People from Postira Bosansko Grahovo Croatian civilians killed in World War II