Nikola Radmanović

Holy New Martyr Nikola Radmanović was a protopresbyter of the Serbian Orthodox Church, born in 1869 at Sadilovac, near Slunj, into a priestly family, and killed on 2 August 1941 by the Ustaše.

He did his primary schooling at Sadilovac, and gymnasium and teachers' school at Karlovac. He finished the seminary at Zadar in 1895 and was ordained in 1896. He was assistant parish priest at Plaški, then the seat of the Gornji Karlovac diocese. From 1900 he was parish priest at Slušnica, near Slunj, and received the Order of Saint Sava. When the Independent State of Croatia was proclaimed, he refused to leave for Serbia and thus abandon his people.

On Saint Elijah's day, 2 August 1941, the Ustaše from Slunj came to Slušnica. They sealed the church and took Nikola, with his family, to Slunj, where they shut him in the school together with seven hundred other Serbs. After great torture, they killed them all on the night of 2 August. They buried them in a mass grave on the right bank of the Korana, at the place called Rastoke. Then the Ustaše looted the church and demolished it.