Stevan Sočica

Holy Martyr Stevan Sočica was born in 1940 in the Piva region of Montenegro and was only 3 when he died a martyr, in 1943. He is among the 46 martyrs of Plužine, killed on 24 May, old style (6 June, new style) 1943, at Gojkovića Dol: during the offensive of the SS divisions "Prinz Eugen" and "Handschar" in Piva, a group of several dozen defenceless people, mostly the elderly, women and children, was shut in a hut, which was set on fire. The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church numbered them among the saints on 24 May 2017, with commemoration on 25 May, old style (7 June, new style).