On July 14, 2019, exactly fifty years after his first Mass, Fra Dujo Boban celebrated the 50th anniversary of his priesthood at the Church of St. Anthony of Padua in Prugovo.
After the solemn Mass, everyone sat down to a generous lunch on the parish grounds. Among the many parishioners were Mr. B. Boban, prefect of Split-Dalmatia County, and several members of Vancouver’s Immaculate Heart of Mary parish.
Fra Dujo dreamed of becoming a priest from the time he was a child, and he made that dream come true. He hoped to serve God and his people in the beloved rocky hills of his native Dalmatia. But God’s ways led him far from his homeland, to North America: to Vancouver, where he twice served as parish priest, then to Calgary, and later to San Jose, California.
We extend our warmest congratulations to Fra Dujo, along with our thanks for his many years of service in Vancouver’s Immaculate Heart of Mary parish.
