Juraj Divnić

[4] Juraj Divnić approved the Marian apparition occurred in May 1516 in a little island near Nin, known as Our Lady of the Hare.

[5] Due to his old age, in 1523 Juraj Divnić asked Pope Adrian VI to be allowed to retire and be succeeded by his nephew Jakob.

[6] In 1528 he restored the Cathedral of Nin (now Church of St. Anselm), supplied new religious furnishings, and prepared his tomb.

[6] He died in Zadar on 8 August 1530, and he was buried in the side chapel of Our Lady of the Hare, in the cathedral of Nin, where is still present his sepulchral inscription.

[2] His only literary work which has survived is a long letter written in Latin on 27 September 1493 to Pope Alexander VI about the Battle of Krbava, where the Croatian army was destroyed by the Ottoman cavalry.