Vitovnica is a village situated in

Petrovac na Mlavi Petrovac ( sr-cyr, Петровац), also known as Petrovac na Mlavi ( sr-cyr, Петровац на Млави, "Petrovac upon(on the) Mlava"; ro, Piatra Mlave) is a town and municipality located in the Braničevo District of the eastern Serbi ...

municipality in

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. This village was the birthplace of the important Serbian spiritual writer, Elder Thaddeus who was born in 1914 as Tomislav Štrbulović. The village is also home to the

Vitovnica Monastery The Vitovnica Monastery ( sr, / ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery which is dedicated to the Assumption of the Holy Virgin. The monastery is located in the hills of Eastern Serbia, on the right bank of Vitovnica River, some ten kilometres east ...

of the Serbian Orthodox Church. Elder Thaddeus was a hegumen at the Vitovnica Monastery from April 14, 1962 until the end of March in 1972. His gravesite is at the monastery.

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Populated places in Braničevo District {{BraničevoRS-geo-stub