The Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox
Church, during today's session rendered the decision to enter two priest
martyrs and forty students-martyrs of Momisici and that their celebration
(formal declaration of sainthood; canonization) be at the Holy Hierarchical
Divine Liturgy at the St. Sava Memorial-Church on Vracar on Saturday, May 19,
2012, led by His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia at which their long and
prayerful respect among the faithful of the Serbian Orthodox Church will be
confirmed.
History of the Martyrs of Momisici
Two priests, serving as religious education teachers,
and their forty students, children from the parish mostly from the brotherhood
of Popovic were burned alive in 1688 at the St. George Church in the modern day
Podgorica suburb of Momisici, at the hand of the Sulejman-Pasha army of Skadar,
as a sign of retaliation which the Osmanlija Turks suffered from the hill
tribes the previous months, particularly from Kucha.
Their relics were gathered and buried beneath the holy
altar table of the St. George Church. During the entire time of Turkish rule,
the relics remained in this church until 1936 when, with great honor and the
litiya-procession of the people the relics were transferred to the renovated
St. George Church in Momisici and placed beneath the holy altar table there. In
2006 the relics were taken out for the faithful to venerate on the feastday of
the Holy 40 Martyrs of Sebaste, known commonly among the people as Holy Youths
Day, after which Metropolitan Amphilohije, together with the clergy, washed
them with wine and anointed them with rose oil according to the ancient
Orthodox custom. Since then they can be found in a reliquary on the left hand
side of the iconostasis of the Momisici church of St. George, which, since
then, has also been dedicated to their holy memory. In commemoration of the
last finding of their relics, for some years now in the Metropolitanate of
Montenegro and the Coastlands their liturgical commemoration is celebrated on
the feast of the Holy Martyrs of Sebaste.
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