Holy Missionaries MARDARIJE (Uskokovic) and SEBASTIAN (Dabovich) Newly Proclaimed as Saints of the Orthodox Church!

May 30, 2015

    

The Holy Assembly of Hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church during its regular session on May 29, 2015, added the names of Archimandrite Sebastian (Dabovich) and Bishop Mardarije (Uskokovic), clergymen and preachers of the Gospel, God-pleasing servants of the holy life, and inspirers of many missionaries, to the Dyptich of Saints (Calendar of Saints) of the Orthodox Church, reports the website of the Western Diocese of the Serbian Church in America.

The Holy Assembly took this action at the recommendation of the Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America.

The Holy Assembly has established that the permanent annual commemoration of the Holy Hierarch Mardarije be on December 12, and Father Sebastian on November 30, on which days the Divine Liturgy will be served and the service chanted (hymns, troparion, and kontakion), and that their icons be piously venerated.

Soon this holy act of the Assembly will be announced to other Orthodox Churches throughout Ecumeni (the inhabited world).

Adding the names of the Holy Mardarije of Libertyville and Holy Sebastian of Jackson is a great event of our Church.

On the same day, the Holy Assembly celebrated the memory of the Holy New-Martyrs who suffered in Prebilovac (Herzegovina).

5/30/2015

See also
Statehood Day and Patron Saint-Day of the Republic of Srpska Statehood Day and Patron Saint-Day of the Republic of Srpska Statehood Day and Patron Saint-Day of the Republic of Srpska Statehood Day and Patron Saint-Day of the Republic of Srpska
Marking January 9th - The Statehood day of the Republic of Srpska and its Patron Saint-Day, Holy Hieromartyr and Archdeacon Stephen, began with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy celebrated by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, in the church of Christ the Saviour in Banjaluka. On the Feast of the Ascension: A Sermon by Our Righteous Father Sebastian Dabovich San Francisco, 1899 On the Feast of the Ascension: A Sermon by Our Righteous Father Sebastian Dabovich San Francisco, 1899
St. Sebastian Dabovich On the Feast of the Ascension: A Sermon by Our Righteous Father Sebastian Dabovich San Francisco, 1899 On the Feast of the Ascension: A Sermon by Our Righteous Father Sebastian Dabovich San Francisco, 1899
St. Sebastian Dabovich
The "two men in white apparel," who immediately after the ascension of the Lord appeared to the Apostles and asked them why they stood gazing up into heaven, were without doubt themselves inhabitants of heaven; therefore it is not to be supposed that this was displeasing to them, or that they desired to direct the gaze of those men of Galilee elsewhere. No. They desired only to put an end to the inert amazement of the Apostles when saying: Why stand ye gazing up into heaven? Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Serbia's New Chrysostom Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Serbia's New Chrysostom Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Serbia's New Chrysostom Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich: Serbia's New Chrysostom
While the mere facts of Bishop Nikolai's life inspire awe, such a skeletal portrait does not explain his spiritual magnetism and the soul-penetrating power of his writings. These were the fruit of his life-long striving to know and to serve the Truth, which, in turn, kindled a habit of ceaseless prayer and a practiced consciousness of continually abiding in the presence of God. The Holy Confessor Metropolitan Dositheus (Vasich) of Zagreb The Holy Confessor Metropolitan Dositheus (Vasich) of Zagreb
Hierodeacon Ignatius (Shestakov) The Holy Confessor Metropolitan Dositheus (Vasich) of Zagreb The Holy Confessor Metropolitan Dositheus (Vasich) of Zagreb
Hierodeacon Ignatius (Shestakov)
The Holy Confessor Dositheus (Vasich), Metropolitan of Zagreb, was canonized by the Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church in May 2000, together with the other New Martyrs of Serbia. They all suffered in the middle of the twentieth century, either at the hands of the Croat Ustashi or else as a result of the Communist terror campaign. Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich
Hieromonk Damascene Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich
Hieromonk Damascene (Christensen)
Born to Serbian immigrants in San Francisco in 1863, Archimandrite Sebastian Dabovich has the distinction of being the first person born in the United States of America to be ordained as an Orthodox priest, and also the first native-born American to be tonsured as an Orthodox monk. Hieromartyr Sabbas (Trlaich), Bishop of Gornji Karlovac Hieromartyr Sabbas (Trlaich), Bishop of Gornji Karlovac
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov) Hieromartyr Sabbas (Trlaich), Bishop of Gornji Karlovac Hieromartyr Sabbas (Trlaich), Bishop of Gornji Karlovac
Hieromonk Ignaty (Shestakov)
The bishop and the priests were told that they were undesirables and that they must abandon their flocks. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zagreb, Aloysius Stepinac, openly told Vladyka that he must leave ‘Croatian’ Karlovac, otherwise he would be liquidated. Vladyka answered him: ‘Even if it costs me my head, I will not abandon my people!’ Soon it became clear that the Catholic Archbishop was not joking. Vladyka Sabbas was arrested and horribly tortured. During the tortures and beatings in Plashkom, the Ustashi used a gramophone to play the hymn, ‘As many as have been baptized in Christ, have put on Christ’.
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