Category: Religion
Created by: Silentchapel
Number of Blossarys: 95
English (EN) 
Paraskeve of Serbia (affectionately called Mother Petka) was 11th century ascetic. After having a vision, she fled her home and settled in a desert where she gave herself over to difficult labor. Not ...
Zlata of Maglen (Злата Магленска) was an 18th century peasant girl. At one point the Turks insisted she renounce Christianity; when she refused, they tortured her, and finally hanged her upside down ...
Jasenovac was a notorious concentration camp during Ustashe-led Croatian government during World War II. Its inmates were tortured, maimed and killed in most brutal ways (with sledgehammers and ...
Martyrs of Prevalaka monastery suffered in 15th century, when a traitor from their ranks put poison in monastery food. All the monks died; later on, monastery was restored, and the bones of Prevlaka ...
Saint Sava/Sava (Свети Сава; 1174 – 14 January 1236), born Rastko Nemanja, was Serbian prince that renounced his claim to the land and became a monk on Mt. Athos; later on he was consecrated a bishop ...
John Vladimir (Јован Владимир, ca. 990 – 22 May 1016) was ruler of Duklja, most important Serbian principiality. He was a just and peaceful ruler who married Bulgarian princess Theodora Kosara who ...
