New Martyr
Grozdana Adžić
A new martyr from the Piva region of Montenegro, killed in 1943.
Life
Holy New Martyr Grozdana Adžić was born in 1938 into the Adžić family of Plužine, in the Piva region of Montenegro. In June 1943 she was a little girl of five or six, among the forty-six people, twenty-nine of them children, shut into the hut of Obren Gojković.
Of the Adžić family there suffered then, besides her, Darinka (born 1916), Stana (1909), Ljubica (1927), Ljubinka (1943), Vule (1939), Nenad (1943), as well as Krsto, Stoja and their children, among them Saint Jaglika. The hut was burned by soldiers of the SS division "Handschar".
Grozdana is commemorated on 24 May in the old style, together with the other martyrs of Piva, glorified by the Serbian Orthodox Church on 24 May 2017.
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