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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Hieromartyr

Jovan (Zečević)

of Vozuća

A hieromartyr of Vozuća, killed for Christ in 1941.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194120th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Jovan (Zečević) of Vozuća was born in 1895 at Bosanski Novi. He finished the seminary in Sarajevo, where he was in the group of Gavrilo Princip, for which the Austrian authorities sentenced him to four years of imprisonment. He was ordained deacon and priest in 1922. In June 1941 he was taken with a group of Serbs in a freight car to Koprivnica, where he was terribly tortured and finally killed. 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