Saints
Research and write a mini-bio on a saint from either the Orthodox or Catholic faith.
(include image, MLA format, approx. 250 words)
Research and write a mini-bio on a saint from either the Orthodox or Catholic faith.
(include image, MLA format, approx. 250 words)
Saint Sava, was a Serbian Prince and
an Orthodox monk, he was also the first Archbishop of the autocephalous Serbian
Church. He is also the founder of Serbian Law and literature. Before he became
a Monk, his name was Rastko Nemanjic, he was the youngest of the Serbian Grand
Prince Stefan Nemanja, the founde of the Nemanjic Dynasty. He shortly ruled the
Hum, principality, from 1190-1192. He became a monk in his youth, when he
became a monk he got his name Sava. He subsequently found the famous monasteries
Hilandar and Zica. He fought for the independence of the Serbian church;
finally his visions were fulfilled in 1219, when he was recognized As the First
Archbishop of Serbs, by the Patriarch of Constantinople, in the same year St.
Sava wrote the oldest known constitution of Serbia, by doing so he gained Serbia
full political and religious independence.
In Serbian history he is considered as one of the most important figures, he is considered, by the Serbian Orthodox church as its founder, on January 27. His life and ideas were shown and interpreted by many Serbian middle age artists. He is the patron saint of Serbian Schools and school children. The cathedral of Saint Sava is located in Belgrade, it was built on the place where the Ottoman Turks burnt his remains in the 16th century, and the cathedral is currently the largest Eastern Christian church building in the world.
