On July 1 and 2 in Zadar, on the Dalmatian coast, the Minister General, Br. Massimo Fusarelli, and the Definitor General of the area, Br. Konrad Cholewa, met with the Definitors of the Franciscan Provinces of Zagreb (Saints Cyril and Methodius) and Zadar (St. Jerome), on the journey that sees the friars of these two Entities of Croatia engaged towards an ever closer collaboration.
Various aspects of the journey were addressed: the schedule leading to the celebration of the Chapter of the Province of Zadar, which will become a dependent Custody, and then that of Zagreb.
The Minister and the Definitor also met with the Provincial Ministers of the South Slavic Conference, promoting an ever closer collaboration between the Entities that compose it.
On the 3rd July, the meeting was opened to almost all the friars of the Province of St. Jerome, for a moment of meeting, exchange, dialogue and comparison, on the occasion of the Chapter of the Mats of this reality.
On the 4th and 5th July, the Minister General also visited the friaries of Dubrovnik and others in the surrounding area, thus learning about some aspects of the spiritual, artistic, historical and pastoral heritage that the friars of Dalmatia preserve and still try to promote.