Ivan Merz sudionik Prvoga svjetskog rata 1916.-1918. godine
IVAN MERZ, PARTICIPANT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR FROM 1916 TO 1918

Summary/Abstract: Blessed Ivan Merz, from Croatia, was an active participant in the First World War. After a short stay at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt from September to December 1914, he went on to study law and literature in Vienna. In December 1915 he was called to Banja Luka to take the recruitment medical examination. Based on the Defense law, he was drafted in the summer 1915, and had to stop the studies he had begun in Vienna, and at the beginning of February 1916 he was sent to Lebring near Graz as a member of the 2nd Bosnia and Herzegovina Regiment from Banja Luka. He spent two years on the Italian front. In his extensive diary he described the horrors of war. Participating in the war, Ivan Merz experienced a profound conversion to God. After the war he started the deep religious life that led him towards holiness.

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