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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Jovan (Rapajić)

of Žiča

A Serbian cleric associated with Žiča, a hieromartyr killed for the faith in 1945.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194520th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Jovan (Rapajić) was a protosyncellus at the Žiča Monastery, born in 1910. He finished the seminary in 1931 and then followed the courses of the Faculty of Theology of the Serbian Orthodox Church. In May 1945 the partisans seized him together with the hieromonk Mihailo Đusić. They were held in the OZNA prison, where they were starved and tormented. He was shot in May 1945 at Blažuj, near Sarajevo. He is among the new martyrs of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and Mileševa, numbered among the saints by the Serbian Orthodox Church; their commemoration is on 5 July, old style (18 July, new style).

Commemorated the same day July 5