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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

New Martyr

Obrad Luburić

One of the new martyrs of Piva in Montenegro who suffered in 1943.

Feast
May 24old style June 6
Reposed
194320th century
Place
Piva, Montenegro
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy New Martyr Obrad Luburić was born in 1938 into the Luburić family of Plužine, in the Piva region of Montenegro. In June 1943 he was about five and suffered in the hut of Obren Gojković at Gojkovića Dol, together with his brothers and kin: Danilo, Jovan, Matije, Radmilo, Vidosava, Ljubica and the other Luburići, thirteen in all.

Soldiers of the SS division "Handschar" shut the group of forty-⁠six in the hut and set it on fire. A little later Anđa Luburić, the only one of the kin who escaped, was able to testify to what she saw from a tree in which she had hidden.

The martyrs of Piva were glorified by the Serbian Orthodox Church on 24 May 2017 and are commemorated on 24 May in the old style.

Commemorated the same day May 24