Vladimir Čejović

Protodeacon Vladimir Čejović (1904-1941) was secretary of the eparchial court of Herzegovina, at Mostar, and was killed by the Ustaše on 26 June 1941, together with the monks of the Žitomislić Monastery. He was canonized as a holy martyr by the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on 23 May 2022; he is commemorated on 13 June (26 June by the new calendar), together with the other martyrs of Žitomislić.

With Abbot Konstantin Vučurević, the hieromonks Dositej Vukićević and Makarije Pejak, the novice Mladen Šaren and two seminary graduates, Marko Prodanović and Branko Bilanović, he was cruelly tortured by the Ustaše on 26 June 1941. He could not be made by torture to renounce the Orthodox faith; the executioners threw him alive into a ravine, then covered him with stones. In the same way thirty-⁠three other villagers of the area were killed. No other details of his life are known.