Jelena Štiljanović

Jelena Štiljanović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јелена Штиљановић ; † around 1546), known today by her spiritual name Jelisaveta ( Serbian - Cyrillic Јелисавета ), is a Serbian saint.

Life

During her lifetime, as the wife of the Serbian despot Stefan Štiljanović, she was a Serbian princess (Serbian: kneginja) in the Syrmia and Eastern Slavonia region and, after the death of her husband, a nun in the Šišatovac monastery or in the Petkovica monastery administered by the Šišatovac monastery and founded by her Fruška Gora region. The establishment or re-establishment of the Petkovica monastery after the death of her husband by Jelisaveta has not been historically verified and is based on folk tales. After Stefan's death, she is said to have fled the popular tales to Germany (perhaps also to Austria) from the Ottomans. One can assume that she was very wealthy and had to fear envious people and competition alongside the Ottomans. However, she returned to Fruška Gora after being notified that his bones had been found. Then she is said to have founded or re-founded the Petkovica Monastery. It is verified that she then entered one of the two monasteries mentioned as a nun and stayed there until her death. Like Stefan Štiljanović, she was canonized soon after her death around 1546. This makes her one of the total of six female saints in the Serbian Orthodox Church out of a total of 77 saints. Your holiday is celebrated together with that of St. Stefan Štiljanović on October 17th according to the Gregorian and October 4th according to the Julian calendar.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ One of the six female saints of the Serbian Orthodox Church (last line of the 1st paragraph)

swell

• Literature Original title Srpski Sveti ( Serbian Saints ), Rukumija Monastery (2000)
• To the foundation of the monastery