Vasilije the Baker of Peć

Holy Martyr Vasilije the Baker of Peć was a baker by trade in the town of Peć, in Kosovo and Metohija. He was killed by Albanians, under Ottoman rule, for his faith in Christ.

According to the 2018 communiqué of the Holy Assembly of Bishops, he and the other martyrs canonized then were killed at the end of the nineteenth century or the beginning of the twentieth. The Assembly numbered him among the saints in May 2018, together with Grigorije of Peć and Bosiljka Rajičić, and the canonization was proclaimed on 10 May 2018 in the Cathedral of Saint Sava in Belgrade. The feast is on 29 April old style, that is, 12 May new style.