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Hieromartyr

Ratomir (Janković)

A Serbian hieromartyr who gave his life for the faith in 1941.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194120th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Ratomir (Janković) of Duboče was born in 1915 at Pljevlja. He finished the seminary in Sarajevo in 1937 and received the priesthood in 1938, in Sarajevo. The Italians shot him on 4 December 1941 at Pljevlja. He is among the new martyrs of Dabar-⁠Bosnia and Mileševa, numbered among the saints by the Serbian Orthodox Church; their commemoration is on 5 July, old style (18 July, new style).

Commemorated the same day July 5