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Fran Saleški Finžgar

Died in 1962

Fran Saleški Finžgar was born on 9 February 1871 in Doslovče, in Upper Carniola, into a peasant family. After the Ljubljana gymnasium and the seminary, he was ordained priest in 1894 and served in several parishes of the region, before becoming in 1918 parish priest of Trnovo, in Ljubljana, where he had the church renovated by his neighbour, the architect Jože Plečnik. From 1922 he ran a family magazine and the books of a large Catholic publishing house. He received the Prešeren Prize in 1951 and died in Ljubljana on 2 June 1962.

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