Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor expressed deep gratitude to the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God for the project of opening one of the most modern hospitals for mentally ill patients in the region, which will have 143 beds, of which 40 are intended for palliative care.

The Pope certainly feels at home in Croatia, said the Director of the Holy See Press Office and Radio Vatican in the introduction to this week's Octava dies, a program of the Vatican Television Center

"We are pleased to be contemporaries of such historical events, which are significant for our present and open a better future for us. We are going to be visited by the successor of Peter, the Vicar of Christ, the moral pillar of our age. A person who moves men and the world," said Msgr. Barišić