Fra Didak Buntić was a Croatia

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

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Friar

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 and educator from Herzegovina

Herzegovina

Herzegovina is the southern region of Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there is no official border distinguishing it from the Bosnian region, it is generally accepted that the borders of the region are Croatia to the west, Montenegro to the south, the canton boundaries of the Herzegovina-Neretva...

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Buntic was born on October 9, 1871. The next day he was baptized as Franjo Buntić. He entered the Franciscan order in 1888 (taking the name Didak) and finished seminary in 1894.

The next year he began teaching at the gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

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 in Široki Brijeg

Široki Brijeg

-Name:The name of the city means "the wide hill" in Croatian . The city is also sometime referred to as "Široki Brig" and among the inhabitants of Herzegovina simply as "Široki" . Between 1945 and 1990, the name was officially Lištica, after the river that flows through it.-Geography:The river...

. During his time in Široki Brijeg, the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built. He became the school's principal in 1911 and began to encourage the education of children from neighbouring villages. In 1919 he helped open a school in Zagreb

Zagreb

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 to educate students from Herzegovina. That same year he became the head of the Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a province of the Franciscan order of the Catholic Church in Herzegovina...

 and moved to Mostar

Mostar

Mostar is a city and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the largest and one of the most important cities in the Herzegovina region and the center of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton of the Federation. Mostar is situated on the Neretva river and is the fifth-largest city in the country...

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In 1920, he was elected to the Constitutional Assembly of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Constitutional Assembly election, 1920

The 1920 Constitutional Assembly election of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes for the National Assembly took place on 28 November 1920....

 as a member of the Croatian Popular Party

Croatian Popular Party (1919)

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He died in Čitluk

Citluk

Čitluk is a town and municipality located in Herzegovina, in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a municipality of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina....

in 1922 of a heart attack.

External links

• http://www.didak.net/