A Bosnian Muslim did not sleep for a week after he was assigned the job of carving a special chair that Pope Francis will be sitting in during his visit to Bosnia.
Hajdarovac, 61, and his 33-year-old son Edin started working on the chair on Monday in their little workshop in the central Bosnian town of Zavidovici.
All other orders were put on hold in order to produce the chair by June 6, when the pointiff will be holding a Mass in Sarajevo aimed at boosting efforts toward brotherhood in the country which was ravaged by war two decades ago.
Hajdarovac’s family-run workshop has been in the carving business for years, and has been carving souvenirs for visitors of the Catholic Medjugorje shrine as well as decorations for churches and mosques. The chair for the Pope, however, marked the highlight of their careers.