Saint Đorđe Bogić

Georgije Bogić was a Serbian Orthodox protopresbyter and the parish priest of the Orthodox church in Našice; who was martyred by the Ustaše during the Second World War, for which he was canonized as Saint George of Slavonia (Serbian: Георгије Славонски, romanized: Georgije Slavonski), being recognised as a new martyr and hieromartyr. Georgije Bogić was born in Pakrac on 6 February 1911. He completed grammar school in Nova Gradiška and seminary in Sarajevo. On 25 May 1934, he was ordained as a priest in Pakrac. Bogić then performed his duties in the parishes of Majar and Bolmače, after which he was moved to Našice, where he happened to be at the beginning of World War II and the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia. His afflictions were witnessed by Proko Prejnović, a Serb who hid from the Ustaše in a tree: According to another witness, the person guilty of these martyr afflictions was a Roman Catholic priest from Našice, Sidonije Šolc: "He (Fra Šolc) had our parish priest Đorđe Bogić killed in the most monstrous manner. They took him out of his apartment in the middle of the night and butchered him. Bogić's body remained in the same place the whole night, until the afternoon of the next day. Around 4 PM, the local Romani were ordered to take the corpse to Brezik Našički and to bury it in the graveyard. At the regular session of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church in 1998, Protopresbyter Đorđe Bogić was canonized, and his name was entered in the list of names of the saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church.