Immediately next to the former Jesuit College, today the seat of the Požega Diocese, stands the medieval St. Lawrence Church, one of the oldest preserved monuments of Gothic heritage in this part of Croatia and the bearer of great historical and cultural significance. It survived the Ottoman rule most probably because it was turned into a mosque and later into a warehouse. The interior is decorated with gothic frescoes dating back to the period from the 13^th to the 15^th century, which despite numerous devastations are still mostly preserved, restored or conserved.  In the year 1998 Pope John Paul II appointed St. Lawrence as the patron saint of the Požega Diocese and ever since the patron saint’s ancient temple in Požega has been the second most important church in the Diocese. On top of that, on the occasion of the church’s consecration in 1998 the relics of the Blessed Alojzije Stepinac, the second patron of the Church and the Diocese, were embedded in the main altar.