Grgo Martić

Grgo Martić ( born January 22, 1822 in Rastovača at Posušje; † August 30, 1905 in Kreševo ​​, Bosnia and Herzegovina) was a Croatian Franciscan and writer.

Life

Grgo Martić was born 1822 in Rastovača at Posušje in the then Ottoman Herzegovina. From the year 1834 he received his education at the Franciscans in Bosnia Kreševo ​​and decided there to enter the Franciscan Order. He remained until 1838 in Kreševo ​​. From 1844, he continued his education outside Bosnia in Požega, Zagreb and in Hungary. His ordination takes place at Christmas 1844. Kaplan When he was three years pastoral work in Kreševo ​​and Osova. After that, he was parish priest from 1851 to 1879 in Sarajevo.

Martić worked as a writer and translator. He translated works of Homer and Goethe into Croatian. At the time of the Austro -Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, he was also politically and fought for the Roman Catholic Croat population of Bosnia - Herzegovina.

A monument in his honor was erected in the center of Posušje directly in front of the church. Furthermore recalls a stone cross from the time ( in the village Rastovača - his birthplace ) to his life and work. The years from 1879 until his death in 1905, he spent mainly in the Franciscan monastery of Krešvo. He was portrayed by Croatian painter Ivan Tisov.