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Hieromartyr

Savo (Šiljak)

A Serbian hieromartyr, killed for the faith in 1945.

Feast
July 5old style July 18
Reposed
194520th century
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy Hieromartyr Savo (Šiljak) of Brezani was born in 1909 in the village of Lađani, near Pljevlja. He finished the seminary at Prizren in 1931 and was ordained priest in 1932. He was killed in 1945 in Slavonia. 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