New Martyr
Momčilo Adžić
A new martyr of Piva in Montenegro, killed in 1943 together with many other faithful of the region.
Life
Holy New Martyr Momčilo Adžić was born in 1936 to Krsto and Stoja Adžić of Plužine, in the Piva region of Montenegro. He was the brother of the Holy Martyr Jaglika and in 1943 was about seven years old.
In June of that year he suffered together with his parents and his brothers Milorad and Dušan: soldiers of the SS division "Handschar" shut them into the hut of Obren Gojković at Gojkovića Dol and set it on fire. Of the forty-six dead of the group, twenty-nine were children like him.
The Serbian Orthodox Church glorified the martyrs of Piva on 24 May 2017; they are commemorated on 24 May in the old style.
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