Bogoljub Gaković

Holy Hieromartyr Bogoljub Gaković was a Serbian Orthodox priest in the eparchy of Gornji Karlovac, whose bishop was Sava Trlajić, resident at Plaški in Croatia. After the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia in April 1941, the bishop and several priests were taken hostage by the Ustaše. On 17 June 1941 Bishop Sava was arrested and confined, with three other priests and thirteen eminent Serbian laymen, in a stable at Plaški, where they were tortured.

On 19 July 1941 the bishop and the priests Bogoljub Gaković, Đuro Stojanović and Stanislav Nasadil were taken in chains to the Gospić camp and tortured there until the middle of August. They were then led out of the camp with thousands of other Serbs and killed on the Velebit mountain; the exact place is unknown. Our record links him with Jadovno, one of the camps of this area. Bishop Sava was glorified by the Serbian Church in 1998; the sources consulted do not say when Father Bogoljub was recognized.