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Holy New Martyrs

28 Child Martyrs of Plav

Twenty-⁠eight children starved to death in the prison at Plav in 1941.

Feast
July 15old style July 28
Reposed
194120th century
Place
Plav
Order
Martyrs

Life

The 28 Child Martyrs of Plav are twenty-⁠eight children who starved to death in the prison at Plav, in Montenegro, in 1941. They are honoured by the Serbian Orthodox Church as martyrs. The source found preserves neither their names nor details of their suffering.

Commemorated the same day July 15