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Hieromartyr

Božidar (Minić)

A Serbian hieromartyr, killed for his faith in Christ in 1945.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194520th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Božidar (Minić) was born in 1901 at Kolašin. He finished the seminary in Sarajevo and was ordained deacon in 1926 and priest in 1927. Partisans shot him in 1945. 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