Wrong!  His group was fighting for Serbian Nationalism.  Serbians are Orthodox Christians.  His personal belief was atheism, but so what, the cause was Serbian Nationalism and it was a broad based movement, just waiting for some event to set it off.  

Marcelino, it seems you're awfully defensive, and it causes you to say stupid and false things.

I have a digital copy of the whole trial transcript, where it's stated quite clearly (by the assassins themselves) that they had a strong aversion to the Archduke for being Catholic.

First of all, they supported the idea of a unification of South Slavs.  Not just Serbian Nationalism.  Serbia was to be the "South Slav Piedmont"

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Wrong!  His group was fighting for Serbian Nationalism.  Serbians are Orthodox Christians.  His personal belief was atheism, but so what, the cause was Serbian Nationalism and it was a broad based movement, just waiting for some event to set it off.  

I seem awfully defensive, and it causes me to say stupid and false things.

I have a digital copy of the whole trial transcript, where it's stated quite clearly (by the assassins themselves) that they had a strong aversion to the Archduke for being Catholic.

First of all, they supported the idea of a unification of South Slavs.  Not just Serbian Nationalism.  Serbia was to be the "South Slav Piedmont"

I'm sorry you feel that way  

Well, I haven't read any trial transcripts and I don't see a link in your post to one.  So, if I take your word for it, all I can say is:  so what.  All that proves is they didn't want to be ruled by Catholics, because they were Orthodox.  I guess that proves what, religion matters too?  Fine.  I think it does too.  

Princip doesn't seem to have any Jєωιѕн blood, but his personal effects are kept in an old ѕуηαgσgυє building in Sarajevo.  Strange.

"Fearing his bones might become relics for Slav nationalists, Princip’s jailers took the body in secret to an unmarked grave, but a Czech soldier assigned to the burial remembered the location, and in 1920 Princip and the other “Heroes of Vidovdan” were disinterred and brought to Sarajevo, where they were buried together beneath a chapel “built to commemorate for eternity our Serb Heroes” at St. Mark’s Cemetery.[9]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip

"Princip's pistol was confiscated by the authorities, and eventually given, along with the Archduke's bloody undershirt, to Anton Puntigam, a Jesuit priest who was a close friend of the Archduke and had given the Archduke and his wife the last rites. The pistol and shirt remained in the possession of the Austrian Jesuits until they were offered on long-term loan to the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna in 2004. The pistol is now part of the permanent exhibition there.[10]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip

Yeah, a Browning 1910 .32

Read WA Dolph Owings The Sarajevo Trial, or Edith Durham's The Serajevo Crime for in depth discussion of these matters.

Another interesting book is Henri Pozzi's Black Hand Over Europe.

So, it's basically about ethnic groups wanting their own homeland.  And that seems as natural as rain.