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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

New Martyr

Svetozar Ninošević

A new martyr of Piva in Montenegro who suffered in 1943 together with his kin and neighbors.

Feast
May 24old style June 6
Reposed
194320th century
Place
Piva, Montenegro
Order
Martyrs

Life

Holy New Martyr Svetozar Ninošević was born in 1940 into the Ninošević family of Piva, in Montenegro. In June 1943 he was three years old, one of the youngest in the group of forty-⁠six people of Plužine who suffered together.

With Milica, Sara, Mileva, Olga and Ratko, the others of his kin, he was shut by soldiers of the SS division "Handschar" into the hut at Gojkovića Dol and burned there. Those who afterwards found the remains buried them in a common grave beside the church of Saint John the Baptist in Plužine.

The Serbian Orthodox Church glorified the martyrs of Piva on 24 May 2017; Svetozar is commemorated on 24 May in the old style.

Commemorated the same day May 24