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180 Sektion II: Herrscher, Staat, Nation tributions happened mainly thanks to members of the clergy.82 However, the board for the construction of monu- ments consisted of citizens83, so it was actually their contributions which led to the realisation of the monument.84 The most active among those who tried to maintain the memory of Franz Ferdinand and Sophie was the Jesuit Father Anton Puntigam, who also gave the extreme unction to the deceased and who zealously organised a collec- tion of contributions for an even larger commemorative project in the name of the heirs to the throne. This proj- ect concerned the construction of the Sophien-Heim (Duchess Sophie’s youth centre) and the church of Franz Ferdinand. Intensive work on it started in 1917.85 The action based on ‘Catholic foundations’, which was approved by Franz Joseph and which was taken over by his successor Karl I, was supposed to have – apart from its commemorative function – an educa- tional, humanitarian and military purpose, as the centre and the memorial church were primarily meant for schooling, the Catholic youth and military groups.86 Bory designed a draft for this project as well, and he conceived the future church as a monumental building in a Romanesque style. Had the outcome of the war been dif- ferent, it would have been built at Kovačići and it would have dominated this part of Sarajevo.87 At the entrance into the church Bory intended to place arcades which would serve to glorify the domestic “heroes of the World War”, while for the church apse he envisioned kneeling statues of the heirs to the throne “shown as an eternal memory in the posture that they were in while attending the service only an hour be- fore their death”88 (Fig. 8). Apart from the religious elements which they possess and which tie them closely to the Catholic Church, both projects designed by Bory – the monument at the Latin bridge and the memorial church at the centre that was not Figure 7: Eugen Bory, The Expiation Monument dedicated to Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie of Hohenberg, unveiled in Sarajevo, 28 June 1917.