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Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Sava (Triajich) of Gornji Karlovac''' (Serbian: Свети свештеномученик Сава горњокарловачки) was a [[bishop]] of the [[Church of Serbia]] , who during World War II was arrested, tortured, and [[martyr]]ed by enemy Italian and Croatian personnel.

Svetozar Trlajić Trlajich (Светозар Трлајић) was the son of Stefan Stephen and Jelisaveta (maiden name KarakaševićKarakaševich). He was born in Mol on [[July 1918]], 1884. His education included primary school in his hometown, grammar school in Novi Sad, and [[seminary]] in Sremski KarlovciKarlovtsy. Svetozar graduated from the Faculty of Law in at the University of Belgrade and passed the qualifying examination for judges at the Faculty of Law in Zagreb.

He In 1909, Svetozar was [[ordination|ordained]] [[deacon]] by the Bishop of Timisoara and then [[presbyter]] ten days later. As a [[parish]] [[priest]] he performed his duties served at [[parish]]es in Peška and Bašaid. At the beginning of Early in 1927, he was elected appointed to an officer administrative position, and later principal secretary , of the [[Holy Synod]] of Bishopsof the [[Church of Serbia]]. Being a A widower, he took [[monasticism|monastic]] vows on [[October 27]], 1929 in the Krušedol Krushedol [[Monastery]] and was , being [[tonsure]]d with the name Sava. Soon afterwards he became protosyncellos and [[archimandriterector]] and was appointed [[abbotarchimandrite]] of the Krušedol Krushedol Monastery. On [[September 30]], 19341930, Sava was elected [[auxiliary bishop|Auxiliary Bishop]] of SremSremski. He was [[consecration of a bishop|consecrated]] in Sremski Karlovci by [[Patriarch]] VarnavaBarnabas, Bishop Emilijan of Timok, Bishop Jovan of Niš, Bishop Tikhon Tihon of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, and Bishop Simeon of Zletovo-Strumica. As Patriarchal [[Vicar]] Bp. Sava chaired the diocesan council of the Archdiocese of Belgrade-Karlovtsy. From early 1937, Bp. Sava chaired the ecclesiastical court. He was elected appointed Bishop of Gornji Karlovac on [[June 22]], 1938, with his residence in Plashkom. After the death of Bishop Miron of Pakrac in 1941, he was also named administrator of Pakrac the [[Diocese]]of Pakrac.

At After the invasion of Yugoslavia and the beginning formation of World War II an independent Croatian state, Plashkom was first occupied by Italian forces and then turned over to the Ustashi Croatians in late 1941. Bp. Sava and nine priests were then taken hostage. On [[May 23[[, 1941, he refused a demandUstashi occupied the bishop's residence and expelled Bp. Sava. On [[June 8]], given the notorious executioner Joseph Tomlenovich ordered all diocesan money and records to him by be handed over to the Ustashi. Bp. Sava refused the Italian occupational forces, Ustashi order to leave the his [[diocese ]] and go to Belgrade. He Not wanting to abandon his flock, he refused. Bp. Sava was arrested on [[July June 17]], 1941, and confined, together with three other Serbian priests and thirteen eminent Serb Serbian laymen, in a stable of an Ustasa Josip Tomljenović the Ustashi Joseph Tomlenovich in PlaskoPlaskom. After experiencing awful intense torture, Bishop Sava and the priests , Bogoljub GakovićGakovich, Đuro Stojanović Stojanovich, and Stanislav Nasadilo , were chained and taken to Gospic Gospich concentration camp on [[July 19]]. They There, they were tortured there until the middle of mid August, when . At that time Bishop Sava was taken, together with 2000 other Serbs, in toward the direction of Velebit Mountain. Somewhere on this mountain he suffered a martyr’s death together with thousands of other Orthodox Serbs. The site where Bishop Sava died is still unknown.

In 1998, at the regular session of the [[Holy Synod|Holy Assemblyof Bishops]] of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church Bishop Sava was glorified and entered into on the list of the names of the Serbian Church [[saint]]s as [[hieromartyr]].

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