Mihailo Popović

Holy New Martyr Mihailo Popović was a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and parish priest at Polača, near Knin. He was born on 6 November 1899 at Biskupija, near Knin, and was killed in 1941 and thrown into the Golubnjača pit.

He finished the seminary at Sremski Karlovci in 1928 and was ordained in the same year. He was parish priest first in his native village, Biskupija, then at Cerane and finally at Polača, near Knin. On Ascension Day 1941, while he was serving the Holy Liturgy, the Ustaše burst into the church and arrested him at the exit, together with a large number of people who were in the church. They took them all to the prison at Knin and kept them there until 5 June 1941, then took them to the mine under Promina. They bound them all with a single chain, killed them and threw them into the famous Golubnjača pit.