Saint Sava
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Saint Sava, known as the Enlightener or the Illuminator, was a Serbian prince and Eastern Orthodox monk who became the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian Church. He was also a writer, diplo
Fresco depicting Saint Sava at the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, Serbia
A fresco of Saint Sava, renouncing a return to his royal home, 1907, Stevan Todorović
Mosaic of St. Sava on the western wall, outside, of the Church of the Saint Simeon in Novi Beograd
Sava reconciling his quarreling brothers, Paja Jovanović (1901)
Church of Saint Sava
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The Church of Saint Sava is a Serbian Orthodox church in Belgrade, capital of Serbia. It is the fourth largest Eastern Orthodox church in the world and one of the largest churches in the world by gros
Saint Sava
…works from the Middle Ages to modern times have interpreted his life. He is the patron saint of Serbia, Serbs, Serbian education, and medicine. The Church of Saint Sava in Belgrade is dedicated to him, built on the site where the Ottomans burnt his relics in 1594, during an uprising in which Serbs used icons of Sava…
Church of Saint Sava, pictured in 2023
Fresco of Saint Sava in the Mileševa Monastery, 1235
Evolution of the church’s design from 1931 to 1935
The abandoned construction site, mid-1970s