2005Friar Grgo Martic - First Day Cover

Father Grgo Martić was born in Rastovača near Posušje on January 22nd 1822. After joining the Franciscan order in 1834 he is educated in the convent in Kreševo, a then continues his schooling in the Gymnasium of Požega. After high school he goes off to study in Zagreb and to the cathedral Biograd. In Zagreb he met the leaders of the Illyrian movement, which was the crucial moment in Martić’s poetic orientation. In 1845 he is ordained as a priest and carries out as a priest in various parishes of the Kreševo convent.