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Nikolai of Zhicha

Also known as: Nikolai Velimirovic; Nicholas of Zhicha; the Serbian Chrysostom

Holy Hierarch Nikolai, pray to God for us.

Brief Life A Serbian bishop and prolific spiritual writer often called the Serbian Chrysostom, born in 1881. He was imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp during the Second World War and later reposed in America in 1956. He is the author of the Prologue of Ohrid.
Feast Day(s) Mar 18
Rank / Type
Hierarch
Church Status
Clergy - BishopMonastic
Vocation
WriterHymnographerTeacher
Life Experience
ImprisonmentPersecution
Virtue
Faith
Region of Origin
Serbia
Tradition of Veneration
Serbian
Era Modern
Century 20th
Gender Male
Notes Glorified 2003. Also commemorated on the translation of his relics (some calendars May 3).
Works by the Saint
The Prologue of Ohrid Prayers by the Lake
Links
Hymn / Apolytikion Icon Video / Media
Sources OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints

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