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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Bogdan (Lalić)

of Sarajevo

A hieromartyr of Sarajevo who gave his life for the faith in 1941.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194120th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Bogdan (Lalić) of Sarajevo was an archpriest. He was born on 8 June 1889 at Sarajevo and finished the theological and teacher training school in Prizren. He was ordained priest on 25 April 1924 and served parishes at Cikote, Mokro, Pale and Vranjan; at the start of the Second World War he was a teacher of religion. He was arrested in mid-⁠June 1941 together with his son, a seminary student whose name has not been preserved. Both were killed on Velebit and thrown into the Jadovno pit. He is among the new martyrs of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and Mileševa, numbered among the saints by the Serbian Orthodox Church; their commemoration is on 5 July, old style (18 July, new style).

Commemorated the same day July 5