Ivan Gojković

Holy New Martyr Ivan Gojković was born in 1903 and lived in the Piva region of Montenegro. He was one of the forty-⁠six people of Plužine who suffered together in June 1943, twenty-⁠nine of them children.

Between 6 and 12 June of that year the SS division "Prinz Eugen" and the Muslim SS division "Handschar" killed nearly twelve hundred inhabitants of Piva. The group to which Ivan belonged had been gathered in a house in Plužine; an officer of the Wehrmacht let them flee, but they stopped in the huts at Gojkovića Dol, where in the morning they were seized by the Handschar soldiers, shut into the hut of Obren Gojković and burned alive. Their remains were buried in a common grave before the church of Saint John the Baptist in Plužine.

The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church glorified the martyrs of Piva on 24 May 2017. Their day is 24 May in the old style, which is 6 June in the new.