Vladimir Dujić

Vladimir Dujić was an archpriest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and died in 1941, killed by the Ustasha and thrown into the pit at Jadovno, in a time of persecution of the Serbs in the Independent State of Croatia. The sources at hand call him a new martyr, but they do not say that he himself was canonized, nor do they give his day of commemoration.

He was born on 23 September 1868 at Modruš, in Croatia. He attended the teachers' school in Karlovac and the seminary in Sremski Karlovci, finishing in 1890, the year he was also ordained. He served as parish priest at Senj, and from 1893 as chaplain at Rijeka. He then served as parish priest at Močila, and from 1900 at Srpske Moravice. He received the Order of Saint Sava.

On 13 June 1941, on the name day of Pavelić, about fifteen Ustasha under the command of a captain came to Srpske Moravice. They arrested all the prominent Serbs, among them the archpriest. They were taken to the prison at Ogulin, and then to the camp at Danica near Koprivnica.

In the camp an Ustasha struck the archpriest across the eyes and broke his glasses, which cut him. Covered in blood, he was beaten further, but, by the testimony of a witness, he bore himself bravely, as if he feared neither death nor the Ustasha, and by his bearing he gave courage to others.

At the end of June he was sent with 250 other Serbs to Gospić. There he was savagely beaten together with the other priests. Then all were taken away, killed and thrown into the pit at Jadovno.