J Ivan Prcela

John (baptismal name Ivan) Prcela was born in 1922 in Kosute-Trilj, Croatia. He graduated from the eight-year Franciscan Classical Gymnasium-Seminary in the historic Town of Sinj in July 1944. J. Prcela completed one year of theology in Makarska, Croatia, and two additional years in Rome, Italy. On October 20, 1949, he left the Franciscan Order and, on December 23, 1949, immigrated into the United States and settled in Chicago. On July 9, 1951, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where, at John...See more

John (baptismal name Ivan) Prcela was born in 1922 in Kosute-Trilj, Croatia. He graduated from the eight-year Franciscan Classical Gymnasium-Seminary in the historic Town of Sinj in July 1944. J. Prcela completed one year of theology in Makarska, Croatia, and two additional years in Rome, Italy. On October 20, 1949, he left the Franciscan Order and, on December 23, 1949, immigrated into the United States and settled in Chicago. On July 9, 1951, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where, at John Carroll University, he finished his undergraduate studies in June 1954. He obtained his Master of Arts Degree from Western Reserve University in spring of 1957. Prcela was a high school teacher for thirty-four years; first four years at St. Edward High School in Lakewood, Ohio, and other thirty years in the South Euclid-Lyndhurst City School District, at Charles F. Brush High School from 1958-1983 and at Memorial Junior High from 1983-1988. In December 1963, John Prcela got married in Carcagente (Valencia), Spain and, in Greater Cleveland, fathered four children and retired in 1988; he became a widower on July 6, 2002. For decades, he has written prolifically in English and Croatian. After more than seventy years of study and reflection, Prcela published two books on the Mystery of St. Joseph and now that he is ninety-four years "young" - here he comes out with the third book of his St. Joseph Trilogy.... See less