Basil of Ostrog

Basil Ostroski ( Serbian Cyrillic Василије Острошки; German also Basil of Ostrog; * 1610 in Popovo Polje in Mrkonjići in Herzegovina, † 1671 in Ostrog Monastery) is a Serbian saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church. His secular name was Basil Jovanović. He is nicknamed Miracle Worker (Serbian: чудотворац / čudotvorac ).

He came from a poor family, his family had but a modest livelihood, was very pious. At an early age his later life became apparent. When he was grown up far enough to make decisions for himself, he went to Trebinje to become a monk in the monastery Uspenija Bogorodice. He was later in Bishop ( Periscope ) of Zahumlje and Skender. He knew his his charges Orthodox faithful from the Ottomans and the missionary Catholics to protect. After the Ottomans had the monastery Tvrdoš completely destroyed, he retired to the monastery of Ostrog. There he also died 1671st

His feast day is April 29, which will be celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar on 12 May. His bones have the status of a relic and should have spawned countless miracles since his death. They are in the Ostrog monastery and their rumored miracles cause every year tens of thousands of pilgrims, among them indigenous Muslims who know about their ancestors of these miracles, to visit the monastery on his holiday. In 1996, his bones in Trebinje part in the Easter parade.

Churches

• Church of St. Basil Ostroski Istocno in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Church of St. Basil Ostroski in Novi Banovci, Serbia

Swell

• Saint (17th century)
• Orthodox Bishop (17th Century )
• Saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church
• Historical person ( South East Europe)
• Person (Serbian history )
• History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• History of Montenegro
• Born in 1610
• Died in 1671
• Man