KOSOVO POLJE

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Pravoslavnik
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KOSOVO POLJE

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This day, June 15/28, is a day of great significance in the history of Orthodox Serbia, and the centuries old struggle of the Serbs against Islam. It is the day of the Serbian Tsar St. Lazar, and also the anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo Polje -- June 15/28, 1389--where St. Lazar was beheaded by the invading Ottoman Turks. (Also, not coincidentally, the day on which Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo in 1914, triggering the cataclysmic events of World War I.)

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    I am posting this here because some of us have recently been discussing/debating the subject of Islamic jihad in the history of the Orthodox Church.  Of course, this subject has hardly been controversial to previous generations of Orthodox Christians, but nowadays, things are, apparently, less unambiguous.
  
    Holy Tsar St. Lazar, pray to God for us sinners...
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Thank you for reminding us of this commemoration, Pravo.

Today was also the commemoration of Hieroconfessor Glicherie, who suffered for Orthodoxy at the hands of the renovationists in Romania.

Holy Martyr Lazar and Holy Confessor Glicherie, pray for us!

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