Lovro Karaula (1800 – 20 July 1875) was a

Bosnian Croat The Croats of Bosnia and Herzegovina (), often referred to as Bosnian Croats () or Herzegovinian Croats () are the third most populous ethnic groups in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnic group in the country after Bosniaks and Serbs of Bosnia and H ...

Franciscan friar.

Biography

Karaula was born in 1800 near Livno. A member of the

Franciscan Province of Bosnia Franciscan Province of Bosna Srebrena (also ''Bosna Argentina''; officially la, Provincia OFM Exaltationis S. Crucis - Bosna Argentina) is a province of the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Their headquarters ...

from 1816, he was educated in Fojnica and in Hungary. Karaula served as a secretary to bishop

Augustin Miletić Fra Augustin Miletić (1763–1831) was a Bosnian Franciscan and prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the apostolic vicar of Bosnia from 1813 to his death in 1831. Biography Fra Augustin Miletić was born 16 February 1763 in Fojnica in ...

, as well as being a parish priest. He soon rose to become an important figure of his Province. Karaula is well known for the rebuilding of churches and the construction of schools. He received permission for building the first church by making a direct request to Sultan Abdulmejid I in Constantinople. However, the renaissance of the Catholic Church in the country soon came to the attention of the local Ottoman officials who had kept the church under severe restraint for centuries. For this he was murdered by the Ottomans in 1875. Only three years after his death Ottoman rule ended, and a great reform of the church in Bosnia and Herzegovina brought about a new freedom. In May 2000, Bosnia and Herzegovina issued a stamp in honor of Karaula, as part of a series on famous Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

References

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