be threatened to convert to Islam. He was ransomed by the local Catholics. Another problem for Bishop Marijan was enslavement of Christians by the Venetians. In 1665 he wrote a letter to the Pope, complaining that the Venetians are selling Christians to the Turks as slaves. Lišnjić claimed that some 7 thousand Christians from his diocese were sold to slavery by the Venetians. Both dioceses, Makarska and Duvno, lacked priests. West Herzegovina, under the jurisdiction of the dioceses Makarska and Duvno, didn't have enough priests, and all of them were Franciscans. Bishop Marijan intended to change this by appointing secular clergy in some parishes. Fr Mijo Grbavac, a secular priest appointed by Lišnjić, was a first secular priest to serve in Bosnia Eyalet after it fell to the Ottomans in the 15th century. The local Franciscans opposed these appointments. Bishop Marijan died in 1686 and is buried in a Franciscan church in Makarska. Footnotes References Books Journals 1609 births 1686 deaths People from Imotski Bishops of Duvno Bishops appointed by Pope Alexander VII Bosnia and Herzegovina Roman Catholic bishops 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Croatia