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Jerolim Malinar - Croatian Catholic activist and martyr

Descendants of Jerolim Malinar is a big family.   🙂

We are 62 people, among 17 great great grandchildren.  (year 2024)

We live in Croatia, Slowenia, Spain and USA.

Short notices about some of us:


 

The son Boris Malinar was state school inspector for technical education and wrote shoolbooks.  

The grandson Mladen Malinar is doctor and lives with his family in Slovenia.  

The son Jerko Malinar flee across the Alps after two attempts to Austria, he lives now with his family in the USA, where he cofounded the Museum of Croatian Cultural Heritage.  

The son Hrvoje Malinar, Ing. geology, is a restaurator-conservator, he took care of the preservation of all important monuments in Croatia, from cathedral in Zagreb to cathedral in Dubrovnik, he wrote several books about conservation like "Moisture in historic buildings", he is still a council for conservation and restoration.   In 60-ies has founded a speleology section, that still one of the most acitive in Croatia;  he became famous speleologist and author of several books on Speleology and Mountaineering, i.e. "Mountains at heart - Heart at Mountains".   He was the first to sail around the Balkan Peninsula, with his family in a self-built boat.   For over 10 years, he tries in lengthy trials, to cancel the monstrous verdict on his father, with final success in year 2019.   (The revision of the verdict in the show trial on Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac also happened only after 70 years, in 2016).  

The grandson Jerko Malinar became his name in honour to his grandfather, he folowed the footsteps of his grandfather and become a Catholic journalist.   He lives and works and lives with his family in Austria and Croatia.

The granddaughter Mirna Malinar, dipl. gegologist, wrote as an archaeologist a historical novel, in which she also describes the adventurous life of her father Hrvoje, she lives with her family alternately in Spain and Croatia.  

 

Thanks to God and holy merits of Jerolim Malinar all his descendets become honest and respectable people.   😇