In the holy year, September 26, 2025, on the feast of St. Cosmas and Damian, Bogdan Vidmar, priest and bishop’s vicar for the ECC, completed his domestic journey. Bogdan Vidmar was the initiator, founder and first director of the Institute 1539. The Institute, which connects the Gorizia cross-border area in a common desire and mission – growth in the culture of interpersonal relationships and in the relationship with God, based on gratitude and respect for the heritage left to us by our predecessors and compatriots.
Mr. Bogdan, certainly inspired by God, did an extraordinary job when, also by establishing the Institute 1539, he intervened in the Gorizia space and time in a unique way and marked it with a special mark. As a driving force, he was the initiator of all the activities of the aforementioned institute and was also its director until the last week of his life. In gratitude for his openness to the Holy Spirit and his courage to respond to Him, we commend ourselves to him for further help and intercession, so that the fruits of his work and life may bear abundant fruit in his time and in eternity.
