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[[Image:Sabbas.jpg|frame|right|St. Sava of Serbia]]
Our father among the [[saint]]s '''Sava of Serbia''' (1175 or 1176 – [[January 12]], 1235 or 1236), originally the prince Rastko Nemanjic (son of the Serbian ruler and founder of the Serbian medieval state Stefan Nemanja and brother of Stefan Prvovencani, first Serbian king), was the first [[Patriarch]] of Serbia (1219-1233) and is an important saint in the [[Church of Serbia|Serbian Orthodox Church]]. His [[feast day]] is observed on [[January 27]] in the [[Gregorian calendar]] ([[January 14]] in the [[Julian calendar]] still observed by the Serbian Church), or on January 12. Alternate versions of his name include '''Savvas''' and '''Sabbas'''.
In his youth (around 1192) St. Sava escaped from home to join the orthodox monastic colony on [[Mount Athos]] (Holy Mountain on the Chalkidiki peninsula) and was given the name ''Sava''. He first traveled to a Russian [[monastery]] and then moved to a Greek Monastery, [[Vatopedi Monastery (Athos)|Vatoped]]. At the end of 1197 his father, king Stefan Nemanja, joined him. In 1198 they together moved to and restored the abandoned [[monastery]] [[Chilandari Monastery (Athos)|Hilandar]], which was at that time the center of Serbian Christian monastic life.
