New Martyrs of Dabrobosna and Mileševa

The Holy New Martyrs of Dabrobosna and Mileševa are saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church, commemorated in its services together with the martyrs of Glamoč and Kulen Vakuf on 11 July (28 June by the old calendar). The feast was established in May 2005. On this day the memory is kept of the holy hieromartyrs of Dabrobosna, killed during the Second World War by the Ustaše and the Partisans.

Among those who suffered in this territory there are many Serbian women and children, men and Orthodox priests. The best known, commemorated by name, are the hieromartyr Peter Zimonjić, metropolitan of Dabrobosna (commemorated especially on 4 September), the confessor Barnabas Nastić, bishop of Hvosno (30 October), eight monks of Žitomislić Monastery, among them the hieromonks Dositheus Vukićević, Constantine Vučurović and Macarius Pejak, thrown by the Ustaše into a pit, the hieromartyr Momčilo of Čelebići (born in 1906 at Srbinje near Foča, priest at Čelebići until his martyrdom on 9 November 1945; his relics are kept in the church of Saint Nicholas in Rjeka, at Čelebići), the hieromartyr Dobrosav of Donji Vakuf (born in 1916 at Visoko, seized in June 1941, dragged bound to a cart through the streets and killed on the road to Bugojno), the hieromartyr Mihailo Đusić and the protosyncellus John Rapajić, of Žiča Monastery, shot by the Partisans in May 1945, and the hieromartyr John of Vozuća (born in 1895), cruelly killed in 1941.