Ivan Merz, born into a highly secularized, middle-class Bosnian family, discovered God in science and on the war front. His parents long worried about his piety, until the witness of his life eventually turned them, too, to Catholicism. At the turn of the 20th century, Banja Luka was a city where different parts of Europe clashed. Austria-Hungary held Bosnia in an iron grip, and the article "Blessed Ivan Merz – a Catholic from a liberal family. …
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Ivan Merz, born into a highly secularized, middle-class Bosnian family, discovered God in science and on the war front. His parents long worried about his piety, until the witness of his life eventually turned them, too, to Catholicism. At the turn of the 20th century, Banja Luka was a city where different parts of Europe clashed. Austria-Hungary held Bosnia in an iron grip, and the article "Blessed Ivan Merz – a Catholic from a liberal family. …