{{english}}[[Image:Images svvasilije.jpg|right|thumb|200px|St. Basil of Ostrog]]Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Basil of Ostrog and Tvrdoš''' the Miracle-worker (Serbian: ''Свети Василије острошки и и тврдошки чудотворац''), was the Miracle-worker was born Serbian Orthodox [[Metropolitan ]] of Zahumlje Zahum and Herzegovina from 1639 to 1671. His Feast [[feast day ]] is [[April 29]]/[[May 12]].  == Early Life life ==St. Basil was born in MrkonjićiMrkonjić, a village in Hercegovina Herzegovina, of simple and God-fearing parents named Petar and Ana Jovanović(Петар и Ана Јовановић). His baptismal [[baptism]]al name was Stojan (Стојан) . From his youth, he was filled with love for the Church of God. He was teaching taught the [[Holy Scriptures ]] in the Zavala [[Monastery Zavala]]. His teacher was Serafim, the monastery's [[igumen]] of Monastery Zavala. When Stojan reached maturity, Fr. Serafim sent him to the Monastery of the Dormition (Assumption) of the Theotokos (Tvrdoš), near Trebinje. Stojan was tonsured as [[tonsure]]d a [[monk ]] with the name Basil and was then [[ordination|ordained ]] [[deacon]] and [[presbyter]] . As a monk, he quickly became renown renowned because of his genuine and rare ascetical life. Soon he was raised to [[archimandrite]]. Saint Basil took upon himself mortification upon mortification , each one heavier and more difficult than the last. Archimandrite Basil He spent one year on Mt. [[Mount Athos]].

 When Basil retournedreturned in 1638, he was elected and consecrated Metropolitan of western HercegovinaWestern Herzegovina, against his will. As a hierarch, he first lived in the Tvrdoš Monastery Tvrdoš and , from therewhich he, as a good shepherd, strengthened his flock in the Orthodox Faith, protecting them from the cruelty of the Turks and the cunning ways of the Latins. When Basil was exceedingly pressed by his enemies and, when Tvrdoš was destroyed by the Turks, he moved to [[Ostrog Monastery|Ostrog]], accompanied by thirty monks, where he lived continued to live an austere ascetical life, protecting his flock by his ceaseless and fervent [[prayer]]. [[Patriarch]] [[Gabriel I of Pec|Gavrilo I]] appointed Basil Metropolitan of Eastern Herzegovina on [[November 27]], 1651. He died peacefully in the Lord on [[April 29]], 1671, leaving behind his incorruptible [[relics; incorruptible ]], which are still uncorrupted and miracle-working to the present day. The miracles [[miracle]]s at the grave of St. Basil are without number. Christians and Muslims alike come before his relics and find healing of their most grave illnesses and afflictions. A great people's assembly (pilgrimage) occurs there annually on the Feast of [[Pentecost]].

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