Božo Milanović

Msgr. Božo Milanović (October 10, 1890 – December 28, 1980) was a Croatian priest, theologian and politician from Istria. Along with Antonio Santin, Milanović was one of the greatest anti-fascists of Istria.

Biography Božo Milanović was born in Kringa in 1890 to Jakov and Ana, in a Croatian peasant family. He attended primary school in his hometown. After five grades of primary school, he enrolled in the first grade of the Croatian classical Imperial-Royal Great State Gymnasium in Pazin. He was ordained a priest on July 7, 1914, in Trieste. He studied theology in Gorizia. He received his doctorate in Vienna in 1919.

He had a reputation as a populist. In 1923 he became the president of the Istrian Literary Society of St. Cyril and Methodius in Pazin (then called the Society of St. Mohor) and managed that society for many years; works written by Milanović himself were published by the society. At the end of the 1920s, he lived and worked in Trieste, where he published the last permitted literature and had a prominent role in the Istrian resistance in the joint Slovene-Croatian organization Edinost.

In Trieste in 1946, he started the newspaper Gore srca!.

Milanović was the director of the seminary gymnasium of Pazin from 1947 to 1968; and the director of the Theological College in Pazin from 1955 to 1965.

Milanović died in Pazin.