New Martyr
Nenad Adžić
A new martyr of Piva in Montenegro who suffered for the faith in 1943.
Life
Holy New Martyr Nenad Adžić was born in 1943 into the Adžić family of Plužine, in the Piva region of Montenegro, and was an infant of only a few months when soldiers of the SS division "Handschar" shut the group to which he belonged into the hut of Obren Gojković and set it on fire, in June of that year. He is one of the twenty-nine children among the forty-six martyrs of the group.
With him there suffered the others of the Adžić kin, among them Ljubinka, also born in 1943, Vule, Grozdana, Darinka and Stana. The remains were gathered by the people of Piva and buried before the church of Saint John the Baptist in Plužine.
The Serbian Orthodox Church glorified the martyrs of Piva on 24 May 2017; Nenad is commemorated on 24 May in the old style.
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