Darinka Adžić

Holy Martyr Darinka Adžić was born in 1916 in the Piva region of Montenegro and died a martyr in 1943. She was the wife of the teacher Božo Adžić; the Wehrmacht officer Anders, who knew her husband from their school days, led the prisoners out of the house where they were held and let them flee, but they were caught the next morning by soldiers of the Handschar division. She is among the 46 martyrs of Plužine, killed on 24 May, old style (6 June, new style) 1943, at Gojkovića Dol: during the offensive of the SS divisions "Prinz Eugen" and "Handschar" in Piva, a group of several dozen defenceless people, mostly the elderly, women and children, was shut in a hut, which was set on fire. The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church numbered them among the saints on 24 May 2017, with commemoration on 25 May, old style (7 June, new style).