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New Martyr

Milan Rmanjski

A Serbian new martyr, born in 1874 and died in 1941 at Sarajevo.

Feast
June 30old style July 13
Reposed
194120th century
Place
Sarajevo
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy New Martyr Milan Rmanjski was a priest, born in 1874 and killed by the Ustaše in July 1941, at Lički Bušević. He is commemorated on 30 June by the old calendar (13 July by the new).

He completed the gymnasium and seminary at Reljevo in 1899. He was ordained deacon on 5 and priest on 8 September 1899. He served in the village of Palančište near Prijedor, then at Hašani near Bosanska Krupa, and at Rmanj Monastery (Martin Brod), in the valley of the river Una. He wrote articles in the journal "Bosanska vila" and in other journals. Like the other Orthodox priests of Bosnia, he was interned in 1914 at Arad, where he spent the whole of the First World War.

In July 1941 the Ustaše arrested him and shut him in the camp at Kulen Vakuf, from where on 29 July they took him to Lički Bušević. There they tortured him terribly, slit his throat and threw him into a pit. At the session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Church on 20 May (7 May) 2003, on the proposal of Bishop Chrysostom of Bihać-⁠Petrovac, he was numbered in the council of the holy hieromartyrs of the Church of God.

Commemorated the same day June 30