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Damjan Štrbac
Damjan Štrbac ( sr-Cyrl, Дамјан Штрбац, 19 February 1912 – 17 July 1941) was a Serbian Orthodox parish priest who was martyred by the Ustaše. He was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church as Saint Damian of Bosansko Grahovo, Grahovo (). Biography Štrbac was born in Plavno, Croatia, Plavno near Knin. He attended Cetinje Seminary and finished it in 1932. He was ordained a deacon on 17 March and a priest on 18 March 1934 in Šibenik. He served as parish priest in Žegar, Croatia, Žegar and then in Bosansko Grahovo when the Second World War started. At the end of May 1941, the Royal Italian Army during World War II, Italian army withdrew from Grahovo and its surroundings, and was replaced by an Ustaše unit, who immediately proceeded on 14 June 1941 to arrest citizens from the place and the surrounding area. Among them, Štrbac was arrested. He spent almost twenty days in the prison of the District Court in Bosansko Grahovo, and after that he was taken to Knin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint
In Christianity, Christian belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of sanctification in Christianity, holiness, imitation of God, likeness, or closeness to God in Christianity, God. However, the use of the term ''saint'' depends on the context and Christian denomination, denomination. In Anglican Communion, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheranism, Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but a selected few are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation. Official Ecclesiastical polity, ecclesiastical recognition, and veneration, is conferred on some denominational saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church after their approval. In many Protestant denominations, and following from Pauline usage, ''saint'' refers broadly to any holy Christian, without special recognition or selection. While the English word ''saint'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canonized
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints, or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints. Catholic Church Canonization is a papal declaration that the Catholic faithful may venerate a particular deceased member of the church. Popes began making such decrees in the tenth century. Up to that point, the local bishops governed the veneration of holy men and women within their own dioceses; and there may have been, for any particular saint, no formal decree at all. In subsequent centuries, the procedures became increasingly regularized and the Popes began restricting to themselves the right to declare someone a Catholic saint. In contemporary usage, the term is understood to refer to the act by which any Christian church declares that a person who has died is a sai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
20 July (Orthodox Liturgics)
July 19 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - July 21 All fixed commemorations below are celebrated on ''August 2'' by Old Calendar. For July 20th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on ''July 7''. Saints * ''Holy and glorious Prophet Elijah the Thesbite, whose fiery ascent as it were into the Heavens we celebrate'' (9th century BC)July 20/August 2 Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU). Συναξαριστής. 20 Ιουλίου '' ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hrizostom Jević
Hrizostom Jević (; born 4 March 1952) is a Bosnian prelate of the Serbian Orthodox Church. He has been the metropolitan bishop of Dabar-Bosna since 2017. Jević, formerly a monk of the Krka monastery, has also served as bishop of Bihać and Petrovac (1991–2013) and Zvornik and Tuzla (2013–2017). Early life Jević was born in Vođenica near Bosanski Petrovac to father Nikola and mother Rosa née Radošević. He finished elementary school with excellent grades in 1967. While still in elementary school, Jević expressed interest to become a priest, which his family opposed, which resulted in a one-year pause in his education. Eventually, in 1968 he enrolled at the five-year seminary at the Krka monastery in Kistanje in Croatia, from where he graduated in 1973, also with excellent grades. While at the seminary, he was involved in singing and folklore. While at the fourth year of the seminary, Jević took monastic vows in front of Bishop Stefan Boca of Dalmatia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Skinned Alive
Flaying is a method of slow and painful torture and/or execution in which skin is removed from the body. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the removed portion of skin intact. Scope A dead animal may be flayed when preparing it to be used as human food, or for its hide or fur. This is more commonly called skinning. Flaying of humans is used as a method of torture or execution, depending on how much of the skin is removed. This is often referred to as flaying alive. There are also records of people flayed after death, generally as a means of debasing the corpse of a prominent enemy or criminal, sometimes related to religious beliefs (e.g., to deny an afterlife); sometimes the skin is used, again for deterrence, esoteric/ritualistic purposes, etc. (e.g., scalping). Causes of death Dermatologist Ernst G. Jung notes that the typical causes of death due to flaying are shock, critical loss of blood or other body fluids, hypothermia, or infections, and that the actual death is est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gospić
Gospić () is a town in Lika, Croatia. It is the seat of the Lika-Senj County. Geography Gospić is located in the mountainous and sparsely populated region of Lika. It is the administrative center of Lika-Senj County. Gospić is located near the Lika River in the middle of a karst field ( Ličko Polje). Municipality * Aleksinica, population 169 * Barlete, population 28 * Bilaj, population 162 * , population 25 * Brušane, population 134 * Budak, population 151 * Bužim, population 74 * Debelo Brdo I, population 61 * Debelo Brdo II, population 8 * Divoselo, population 4 * Donje Pazarište, population 125 * Drenovac Radučki, population 0 * Gospić, population 6,575 * Kalinovača, population 94 * Kaniža Gospićka, population 401 * Klanac, population 100 * Kruščica, population 0 * Kruškovac, population 20 * Kukljić, population 13 * Lički Čitluk, population 4 * Lički Novi, population 298 * Lički Osik, population 1,914 * Lički Ribnik, populatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Italian Army During World War II
The Royal Italian Army ( Italian: ''Regio Esercito'') was the land forces of the Kingdom of Italy during World War II, it was active from 1940 until the end of the war in 1945. During the war, a total about 2.56 million conscripts and volunteers served in the Royal Italian Army. In the aftermath of the Armistice of Cassibile in September 1943, the Royal Italian Army became the Italian Co-Belligerent Army fighting alongside the Allies, while the National Republican Army was created by the Italian Social Republic to fight alongside the Axis. Organization The Italian Army of World War II was a "Royal" army. The nominal Commander-in-Chief of the Italian Royal Army was His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele III. As Commander-in-Chief of all Italian armed forces, Vittorio Emanuele also commanded the Royal Air Force ('' Regia Aeronautica'') and the Royal Navy ('' Regia Marina''). However, in reality, most of the King's military responsibilities were assumed by the Italian Prime Mini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Žegar, Croatia
Žegar ( sr-cyr, Жегар) is a historical settlement in the mountainous Bukovica region, above the Zrmanja River, not far from the Krupa Monastery. The settlement of Žegar was created next to the cylindrical tower from the Venetian-Ottoman wars, after which it got its name. The village itself lied above the Žegar Field, from where the population had long " jumped into" (i.e. guerilla warfare) the Dinara, the Venetian-Ottoman border for centuries. Today, the historical region includes the villages of Kaštel Žegarski, Bogatnik, Komazeci, and Nadvoda, which are all administratively part of the Obrovac Municipality. The inhabitants are predominantly ethnic Serbs. Notable people *Janko Mitrović (1613–1659), Morlach army leader *Stojan Janković (1636–1687), Morlach army leader * Gerasim Zelić (1752–1828), Serbian Orthodox archimandrite and writer *Vladimir Milić Vladimir Milić (; born 23 October 1955) is a retired Serbian shot putter who represented SFR Yugosl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parish Priest
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount. By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''ex officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. Etymology and use First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French , in turn from , the Romanisation of the , "sojourning in a foreign land", itself from (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Šibenik
Šibenik (), historically known as Sebenico (), is a historic town in Croatia, located in central Dalmatia, where the river Krka (Croatia), Krka flows into the Adriatic Sea. Šibenik is one of the oldest Croatia, Croatian self-governing cities on the Adriatic, the capital and cultural, educational, administrative and economic center of Šibenik-Knin County, Šibenik-Knin County, and is also the List of cities and towns in Croatia, third-largest town in the Dalmatian region. As of 2021, the town has 31,115 inhabitants, while the municipality has 42,599 inhabitants.The seat is the Roman Catholic Diocese of Šibenik, Šibenik Diocese. It was first mentioned on Christmas 1066 in a grant of Peter Krešimir IV, so it is also called ''Krešimir's Town''. Until the Second plague pandemic, plague pandemic in 17th century it was the largest city on the entire eastern coast of the Adriatic. Šibenik was the ''de facto'' capital of the Federal State of Croatia, Croatia from December 1944 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deacon
A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions. Major Christian denominations, such as the Catholic Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, and Anglicanism, view the diaconate as an order of ministry. Permanent deacons (or distinctive deacons) are those who do not later transition to another form of ministry, in contrast to those continuing their formation who are then often called transitional deacons. Origin and development The word ''deacon'' is derived from the Greek word (), which is a standard ancient Greek word meaning "servant", "waiter", "minister", or "messenger". Recent research has highlighted the role of the deacon "as a co-operator" and "go-between," emphasizing their intermediary position in early Christian communities. It is generally assum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
