Jaglika Adžić

Holy Martyr Jaglika Adžić (Jaglika Pivljanka) was born in 1926 at Gojkovića dol, near Plužine, in Montenegro, and died on 6 June 1943 in the same place. She was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church in 2017, together with other martyrs of the Piva region. Their new feast is kept on 7 June.

Childhood

She was the second of the eight children of Krsto Adžić and Stoja, of Plužine, in the Piva region. She was baptized by the archpriest of Piva, later a hieromartyr, Jovan Sočica. She lived in a working family, of farmers, and, being the elder, cared for her younger brothers and sisters while her parents were at work in the fields. Meanwhile she did other farm work too, to help her parents. After primary school, her parents sent her to study further at Gacko, to their relatives, but soon the Second World War began and she returned home.

Martyrdom

At Plužine, in Gojkovića dol, on 6 June 1943, the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen", made up of Germans and Ustaše, burned in a hut of a certain Obren Gojković sixty people of Piva, besides the one thousand two hundred and sixty whom it had killed in the meantime. Then the archpriest of Piva, Jovan, who had baptized Jaglika, was burned alive, together with his grandchildren. Among the dead in the hut were Jaglika's parents, Stoja and Krsto, and her brothers: Dušan, two years old, Momčilo, two years old, by one source, or two years older, and Milorad, eight. Jaglika was in a group of people of Piva who managed to flee and reach the forest, but, hearing the weeping of her little brothers, she turned back and tried to join her family and the other victims. According to testimony, a German officer ordered two soldiers to hold her by the hands and not let her enter the burning hut, having other intentions with her. But she managed to tear herself free and leap into the fire.

Remembrance

At the entrance to Plužine, the place where the tragedy occurred, there is a plaque set up by SUBNOR Plužine. In 2004 a church dedicated to the Third Finding of the Head of Saint John the Baptist was raised there. A kindergarten in Plužine bears her name, and a street in Podgorica is named after her. Her image is painted in the church of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica and in other churches. The martyrs of Piva were canonized on the proposal of Bishop Joanikije of Budimlja and Nikšić, and Metropolitan Amfilohije proposed that Jaglika Adžić also be joined to them, a girl of seventeen, a victim in the bloody feast of the occupiers in Piva.