About Đorđe Bogić
Lived 1911 – 1941 (aged 30). Đorđe Bogić was an eastern Orthodox priest.
Georgije Bogić (, Đorđe Bogić, and anglicized as George Bogic; 6 February 1911 – 17 June 1941) 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 , being recognised as a new martyr and hieromartyr.
Life 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.
The Ustashas tied the priest to a tree before they began their atrocities. They cut off the priest's ears, his nose, and then his tongue. With relish and entirely senselessly, they pulled out his beard and the underlying skin. The poor, exhausted priest cried out of sheer pain. He was still a young man of thirty, healthy and well built. The whole time the priest was resolute and stood upright so that the Ustashas could give free rein to their crudeness. After gouging out his eyes the priest still did not stir so they cut open his stomach and chest so that Bogić collapsed. One could see his heart beating. One of the Ustashas yelled: "Cursed be your Serb mother whose heart is still beating." After this sentence the Ustashas set the priest on fire and shortened his pain and suffering.
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.
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Serbian saint (1911-1941)
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Đorđe Bogić was born on 6 February 1911 in Pakrac.
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Đorđe Bogić died on 17 June 1941 in Našice.
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Đorđe Bogić was an eastern Orthodox priest.
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