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New Martyr

Radojka Sočica

A new martyr of Piva in Montenegro, killed in 1943 alongside many of her people.

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

Life

Holy New Martyr Radojka Sočica was born in 1938 into the Sočica family of Piva, in Montenegro. In June 1943 she was a little girl of five or six, one of the twenty-⁠nine children among the forty-⁠six people of Plužine who suffered together.

With her in the group were others of the Sočica kin: Cvijeta (born 1914), Anđa (1935), Bosiljka (1937), Stevan (1940) and Tomana (1890). Soldiers of the SS division "Handschar" shut them all into the hut of Obren Gojković and set it on fire. Their remains were buried in a common grave before the church of Saint John the Baptist in Plužine.

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