Stefanida of Bitola

Holy Venerable Martyr Stefanida of Bitola was a great ascetic of our times, born in the region of Shkodër, in Albania, with the baptismal name Stevka Đurčević. When the Serbs were expelled from Albania in 1933, she moved to Kosovo. She took her monastic vows at the Bogdaj orphanage in Bitola, where she died in 1945 of wounds inflicted by the Germans.

Her relics are in the Monastery of Saint Christopher near Bitola. The Synod of the Macedonian Orthodox Church entered her in the diptychs on 11 April 2024 as a venerable martyr.