Ivan Sarić

Ivan Sarić was a Roman Catholic priest who became the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sarajevo. Sarić supported Ante Pavelić and was a promoter of the forced conversion of Serbs to Catholicism in the Nazi puppet state of Pavelić's Croatia. He was an antisemite and publicly supported the persecution of Jews.

Quotes

 * “I was with our Ustaše in North and South America. The bishops there, Americans, Germans, Irish, Slovaks and Spaniards, with whom I came into contact, all praised the Croat Ustaše as good, self-sacrificing believers, as godly and patriotic people ... How many times have I heard the Ustaše ask where they would be without their priests! ... I sang with the Ustaše with all my heart and voice the song 'Our Beautiful Homeland', all with big tears in our eyes. And with eager hope in its beautiful, its sweet and its golden freedom, lifting ourselves upwards to God, we prayed to the Almighty to guide and protect Ante Pavelić for the liberation of Croatia. The good God heard and, behold, he answered our cries and supplications. ...”, Ivan Sarić.


 * “... For God himself was at thy side, thou good and strong one ... So that thou mightest perform thy deeds for the Homeland ... And against the Jews, who had all the money ... Who wanted to sell our souls ... the miserable traitors ... Dr Ante Pavelić! The dear name! Croatia has therein a treasure from Heaven”, Ivan Sarić.


 * “The descendants of those who hated Jesus, who condemned him to death, who crucified him and immediately persecuted his disciples, are guilty of greater excesses than those of their forefathers. Greed is growing. The Jews who led Europe and the entire world to disaster - morally, culturally and economically - developed an appetite which nothing less than the world as a whole could satisfy ... Love has its limits. The movement for freeing the world from Jews is a movement for the renaissance of human dignity. The all-wise and Almighty God is behind this movement.”, Franjo Kralik, published in one of Ivan Sarić's Sarajevo diocese newspapers, Katolicki Tjednik (Catholic Weekly).