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Nazi-era naval vessel to be turned into floating church in Croatia

in Queensland Synod News 18/07/2006 643 Views

WORLD NEWS
A Roman Catholic monastery in Croatia has found use for a former German naval vessel by arranging to have it turned into a floating church.

"It will be used as a sailing church for the young, who will be able to travel the Adriatic, pray and meditate as part of church-sponsored religious cruises," Croatia’s Jutarnji List newspaper reported on 4 July, noting the ship had been handed over to communist-ruled Yugoslavia as war compensation in 1945.

The DTM-219 landing ship was last used for transporting troops and tanks during the Second World War. Croatia’s defence ministry donated the vessel to the Salesian monastery near Sibenik, where it is to be refitted and adapted for its new sacral purposes at a local shipyard.

Roman Catholics make up 88 percent of the 4.5 million inhabitants of Croatia.

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