Saint Sava

BELGRADE - The Holy Fire, the flame of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, arrived in Serbia, where it was handed over to Patriarch Irinej, who shared it with Orthodox Church priests and people gathered in front of the Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade on Orthodox Easter on Sunday.
    

An unidentified man has been arrested in Toronto, Canada, after crashing his car into the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox church in that town.

Canadian media are reporting that after the incident, the man attempted to flee the scene by stopping other vehicles - but in the end used public transportation.

The New York Post writes about "fears of a coordinated attack on the religion" in the wake of the fires in four Orthodox temples on Orthodox Easter Sunday.

A large fire has destroyed the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. Sava in central Manhattan, New York City, on Orthodox Easter Sunday.

There have been no victims, but the building no longer exists, priest Djokan Majstorovic said, and added:

Serbia celebrated Easter with midnight liturgies between Holy Saturday and Ressurection Sunday, and with liturgies during the day in Orthodox churches.

Midnight Easter liturgy at the Temple of Saint Sava in Belgrade, led by Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej, was attended by Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic.

The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) is celebrating January 27 as the feast day dedicated to its founder, Saint Sava.

Since the mid-19th century, this day is also marked in Serbia as "the school feast day" as St. Sava is considered the patron saint of schools and crafts.

Serbians have celebrated the New Year according to the Julian calendar used by the Serbian Orthodox Church, known also as the Serbian, or Orthodox New Year.

A large number of Belgraders turned out for a fireworks display at midnight in front of the Temple of St. Sava, where religious services were previously held.

Together with donors and the people of good will, B92 Fund had won the first victory within the new campaign entitled “Battle for Schools”.

At the start of new school year, newly restored outpost of the Elementary School “Saint Sava” situated at hamlet Vrbnica near Sjenica was opened.

President Tomislav Nikolic and Patriarch Irinej on Friday opened the exhibition “Four Centuries of the Imperial House of the Romanovs - Awakening of Memories."

The exhibition was opened in the crypt of the Saint Sava Temple in Belgrade.

"Holy Fire" taken to monasteries in Kosovo

BELGRADE -- The Holy Fire, which arrived in Belgrade ahead of Orthodox Easter Sunday from Jerusalem, was on Monday taken to Kosovo and Metohija.

The fire, which believers consider to be a miracle, will be taken to the Serb Orthodox Church (SPC) monasteries in Gracanica and Decani, and then the Pec Patriarchate.