Theophan Kosanović

Holy New Martyr Theophan Kosanović was the abbot of Gomirje Monastery in the diocese of Gornji Karlovac, and he died a martyr in 1941, killed by the Ustaše in the camp at Jadovno.

He was born in 1881 at Vera near Plaški, where the seat of the Gornji Karlovac diocese was located. He became a monk in 1903. As a hieromonk he served in the parishes of Ponikve, Brinje, Gomirje and Marindol. In 1929 he became abbot of Gomirje Monastery and remained in that service until his martyrdom in 1941.

In June 1941 the Ustaše arrested him and the hieromonk Nectarius Dazgić and took them to the Ustaše camp "Kula" at Ogulin, located in the old Frankopan fortress. After eight days of torment he was moved to the concentration camp "Danica" at Koprivnica, where he was terribly tortured. From Koprivnica he was sent on 30 June 1941 to Gospić, where he remained for a time. He was taken with a group of Serbs and, after torments, thrown into the pit at Jadovno on the Velebit mountain.