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Venerable Martyr

Jeftimije of Dečani

Monk of Dečani

Serbian monk who died a martyr in the 16th century after the Ottoman conquest of Serbia.

Feast
November 11old style November 24
Era
unknown
Order
Martyrs

Life

Venerable Martyr Jeftimije of Dečani was a Serbian monk and died a martyr in the sixteenth century, after the conquest of Serbia by the Ottomans. The Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates him on 11 November by the old calendar, which is 24 November by the new, together with the venerable Ephraim and Nestor, ascetics of Dečani.

The sources at hand say only that he was a monk living as an ascetic and a martyr, and that he suffered a martyr's death after the Ottoman invasion of medieval Serbia in the sixteenth century. No other details of his life are preserved in them.

Commemorated the same day November 11