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New Martyr

Mihailo Đusić

A Serbian new martyr commemorated in the Serbian Orthodox calendar.

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

Life

Holy New Martyr Mihailo Đusić was a hieromonk of Žiča Monastery, born in 1911 in the village of Gledić, above Ljubostinja, and shot by the Partisans in May 1945 at Blažuj, near Sarajevo.

He graduated from the Faculty of Theology in Belgrade. He was tonsured a monk on 6 January 1934 and in the same year received the ranks of hierodeacon and hieromonk. The Partisans seized him with the protosyncellus John Rapajić in May 1945 and shot them at Blažuj.

Commemorated the same day July 5