Bozanic highlighted the importance of close connections between Molise Croats, whose predecessors left Croatia some 500 years ago during the Ottoman attacks, and their homeland.
Bozanic arrived in Molise with some 50 Zagreb archdiocese priests, who are on a pilgrimage to the grave of the Blessed Augustin Kazotic in the Italian town of Lucera on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of his appointment as a Zagreb bishop.