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Hieromartyr George of Slavonia

1911 – 1941

Also known as Ђорђе Богић · Đorđe Bogić

A Serbian Orthodox parish priest in Slavonia tortured and killed by Ustaše forces in 1941.

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July 4

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Commemorated as

The Holy New Hieromartyr George of Slavonia

Life

George of Slavonia (Georgije Bogić, also rendered Đorđe Bogić) was a Serbian Orthodox protopresbyter and parish priest who was killed during the Second World War and is venerated among the Serbian New Martyrs. He was born on 6 February 1911 in Pakrac, then part of Austria-Hungary, completed grammar school in Nova Gradiška and seminary in Sarajevo, and was ordained a priest at Pakrac on 25 May 1934.

He served the parishes of Majar and Bolmače before being transferred to Našice, where he was stationed at the outbreak of the war. With the establishment of the Independent State of Croatia in 1941, the Serbian Orthodox clergy of the region became targets of the Ustaše regime, and Father George was among those seized in this persecution.

According to the accounts preserved of his death, he was taken from his apartment at night in mid-June 1941 and subjected to prolonged torture before being killed. He reposed on 17 June 1941, at the age of thirty. The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church canonized him in 1998, numbering him among the new hieromartyrs under the name George of Slavonia.

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1911 Birth at Pakrac Born on 6 February 1911 at Pakrac, in what was then Austria-Hungary.
1934 Ordination Ordained a priest at Pakrac on 25 May 1934 after seminary studies in Sarajevo.
1941 Martyrdom Seized by Ustaše forces and put to death at Našice on 17 June 1941.
1998 Canonization Glorified by the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church as a new hieromartyr.

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Martyrdom

The sources relate that in the night of 17 June 1941 Father George was taken from his apartment in Našice and carried off to a field, where he was bound and severely tortured — his ears, nose and tongue were cut off and his eyes gouged out — before he was put to death. His body was afterward buried in a nearby graveyard.

His killing is recorded as part of the wider campaign against Serbian Orthodox clergy and faithful in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia during the Second World War, in which numerous priests and bishops of the region perished.

Veneration

Father George was formally glorified by the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1998 and is commemorated as the Holy New Hieromartyr George of Slavonia (Georgije Slavonski). He is counted among the Serbian New Martyrs who suffered during the Second World War.

Notes

Born 1911; reposed 1941. Among the Serbian New Martyrs of the Second World War.

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_saints_of_the_Serbian_Orthodox_Church