Milan Dokmanović

Holy New Martyr Milan Dokmanović was a protopresbyter of the Serbian Orthodox Church, born on 1 May 1887 at Kruševica, near Trebinje, and killed in 1941 at Jadovno.

He finished the gymnasium and seminary at Sremski Karlovci and was ordained in 1911. He was archpriest's chaplain at Plaški, then the seat of the Gornji Karlovac diocese, and from 1932 parish priest there. The Ustaše placed him under house arrest on 25 April 1941, together with Bishop Sava Trlajić and other priests. They arrested him on 28 May 1941 and took him to the prison at Ogulin, where he was in the same cell as Archpriest Isa Pejnović. One day an Ustaša tortured and ill-⁠treated both of them in the prison yard, and for several days gave them no food. On 9 June 1941, together with 46 other Serbs, the Ustaše transported them to the concentration camp Danica, near Koprivnica. They did not stay long at Koprivnica; on 1 July a whole group was taken to Gospić. There they were beaten, taken to Velebit, killed and thrown into the pit at Jadovno.