Danilo Brakus

Holy New Martyr Danilo Brakus was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church, parish priest at Bjelopolje, near Korenica, born on 25 May 1911 at Zalužnica, near Otočac, and killed in 1941 at Gospić.

He finished the seminary at Sarajevo in 1936 and was ordained in 1938. The Ustaše arrested him a few days after the proclamation of the Independent State of Croatia. At first he was in the prison at Korenica, where they tortured him terribly. Witnesses say they sprinkled his beard with petrol and set it on fire. He was taken to Gospić, where he was killed.