ZAVIDOVICI, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Salem Hajdarovac says he didn’t sleep for a week when he heard his workshop had been granted the honor of carving a chair that Pope Francis will sit on during his visit to Bosnia.

Hajdarovac, 61, and his 33-year-old son Edin, both devout Muslims, have put all other orders on hold to produce the perfect chair by June 6, when the pontiff will hold a Mass in Sarajevo aimed at boosting efforts toward brotherhood in the country ravaged by war two decades ago.

“It makes me extremely happy, because to make the chair for such a person is a huge and important thing,” Edin Hajdarovac said.

Many Bosnians view Francis as a worthy pope.