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Originally posted by ferumbra
Years later, Vatican signed Osimski and "Roman" agreement. In that agreement we paid Italians and Vatican, so that is closed story about monastery Dajla. Or is it?
Pope Benedict replaced Croatian bishop who had this area (Poreč - Dajla monastery), FOR 1 MINUTE, and gives authorisation to some bishop from Spain.
That new bishop returns monastery and all lands to Vatican (about 30 million dollars) and also binds Croatian bishop for Poreč region to pay 4 million dollars in 1 year. That 4 million dollars for Poreč region is really a lot.
So, this 1 minute is very interesting to me. In 1 minute pope can transfer some monastery or land to himself.
Originally posted by charles1952
Please forgive my ignorance of foreign languages, but your link is not in English. I wish you had more information for me, the story doesn't seem quite right.
I believe, in English, that's referred to as the treaty of Osimo. I can't find anything that indicates that the Vatican was a party to the treaty, though Italy was.
Originally posted by charles1952
If the Dajla monastery land had been purchased by the Croatian government, how could a bishop return the lands to the Vatican? The bishop has no authority to do that and no country would allow it. My limited reading indicates that the Treaty of Osimo provided some compensation to Italy and Italians, but they wanted more. I would really appreciate some information on why you believe the Pope was involved as described. Thanks.
Originally posted by Bob Sholtz
douche move. well...if you believe the prophecies about benedict, he dies a cruel death, so its all good. nothing like a happy ending.