The Serbian Saints were also honored this year at Eleonas Thebestranslated

The Serbian Saints were also honored this year - Saint Savvas the Hilandarinos, Saint Nikolaos Velimirovic and Saint Justin Popovic, in the homonymous id. Holy Chapel, in Eleonas, Thebes, Boeotia, according to the standard (Evening on July 3 & Divine Liturgy on July 4, 2026) of the holiday.

Saint Savvas of Hilandari (1175 – 1236) was the first Archbishop of the Autocephalous Serbian Church, "reformer of Serbian monasticism", founder of the Holy Monastery of Hilandari on Mount Athos and "second founder" of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi. Father of Saint Savvas, is Saint Simeon the Myroblytis the Chilandarinos (1114 -1199), patron of childless couples.

Their memory is commemorated on January 14 of each year.

Saint Nikolaos Velimirovic (1880 – 1956) Bishop of Ahridos and Zitsis, of the Serbian Orthodox Church, is considered as "Saint Chrysostom" of the Serbian People. In 1944, the Germans sent him to the Dachau concentration camp of Nazi Germany, where they subjected him to inhumane and horrible torture. He was released in 1945, after the fall of the Axis powers, but the communist regime of Yugoslavia considered him an undesirable person, for…