Serbs Mark 1389 Battle of Kosovo

28 June 2008 Gracanica _ Thousands of Serbs gathered at the medieval Gracanica monastery outside Pristina to remember the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.

June 28 is St Vitus Day, or Vidovdan, when Serbs mark the 1389 Battle of Kosovo when the medieval Serbian kingdom was defeated by Ottoman Turks.

Kosovo Bishop Artemije and several colleagues from the Serbian Orthodox Church served morning high liturgy and a commemoration service. They prayed for the souls of ‘Christian dukes and knights that perished on the field of Kosovo for the honourable cross and golden freedom.’

Referring to the symbolical meaning of the battle, Bishops Amfilohije from Montenegro said in the sermon that, “the good and the evil were confronted in Kosovo, and it is likewise even today.”

Two ministers from Serbia’s outgoing government, Slobodan Samardzic and Vladimir Naumov, belonging to Vojislav Kostunica’s national Democratic Party of Serbia, were at the church service.

After that they joined several thousand Serbs by the 1950s twenty-metre high stone tower making the site of the battle.

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Serbs Mark 1389 Battle of Kosovo
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