Pope Francis Visit In Bosnia: Devout Muslim Carves Special Chair For The Holy Father
Pope Francis is set to visit Bosnia and devout Muslims has started carving the chair that the Holy Father will sit during his visit.
The News1130 reported that the 61-year-old Salem Hajdarovac and his son Edin are both devout Muslims have been starting to work on the chair on Monday in Central Bosnian town of Zavidovici.
Salem Hajdarovac said that he did not sleep for a week when he received the news that he had been granted to carve the chair that Pope Francis will sit on his visit in Bosnia.
"It makes me extremely happy, because to make the chair for such a person is a huge and important thing," said Edin Hajdarovac in The Associated Press according to the report of the Inquirer.
The Hajdarovac have decided to put on hold other orders to make the chair needed by June 6 when Pope Francis is scheduled to hold a Mass in Sarajevo.
Hajdarovac added that the design of the chair will be secret for now and they just said that they will use wood and walnut tree and assured that it will depict various religious symbols like the pontiff's coat of arms and emblems of three Bosnian cathedrals.
The priest Miro Beslic finance to purchase the materials to be used on the chair while Hajdarovac will carve it for free.
"The whole country is in financial crisis, but once people understood that this is about the pope... then people accepted the idea," said Beslic.
Meanwhile, after Easter Sunday Pope Francis will celebrate a service in the Armenian Catholic rite to commemorate the 100th anniversary of a mass killing of Armenians by Turks, cite Crux Now.
The April 12 papal liturgy is part of the campaign by Armenians that will feature the ringing of bells in Armenian churches around the world on April 23 that will recall the year 1915.
