Slavko Zjalić

Holy New Martyr Slavko Zjalić was born on 2 August 1913 at Gređani and was a priest of the Eparchy of Pakrac and Slavonia of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He finished the seminary at Sremski Karlovci in 1932 and was ordained on 5 May 1933 at Pakrac. His first service was in the villages of Zrinj Lukački and Dijelka, then he became parish priest at Paklenica.

The Ustasha arrested him on 10 June 1941, together with several prominent men of Paklenica, and took him to the judicial prison at Novska, where they were tortured. On 14 June they were moved to the camp at Jasenovac, tortured by the cutting off of limbs, then killed and thrown into the Sava. One body was later pulled from the Sava near Šabac, and from the documents found it is believed to have been Slavko Zjalić's. He is regarded as a new martyr of the Serbian Church, among the martyrs of Jasenovac.