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School in Montenegro demanded to remove the icon of St. Sava

The Office for Inspection Affairs of Education demanded that the leadership of the gymnasium in the Montenegrin city of Kotor remove the icon of St. Sava from the study of Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian languages ​​and literature. The image of one of the most revered Serbian saints, the patron saint of schools and students, was in this place for 38 years, writes Pravlife.

According to Vijesti, the Education Inspectorate recently visited the gymnasium and after that notified the administration in writing about the need to remove the icon within three days. The reason is allegedly a violation of the law, which stipulates that education and upbringing should be of a secular nature.

The former headmaster of the gymnasium Mirko Maslovar, who led this school from 1982 to 2011, testified that the image of St. Sava in the office of the Kotor gymnasium was for decades and had never attracted the attention of inspectors before. According to Maslovar, now “politics and public opinion have intervened.”

The current director of the gymnasium Slavica Stupich promised that as long as she heads this educational institution, the icon will remain in its place. Despite the fact that in the sent order of the inspection it is noted: the director of a state institution can be dismissed if he allows “political or religious activity in a state educational institution.”

At the pedagogical council in the gymnasium, the teachers spoke in favor of not moving the icon in any way, because after that they will be required to remove the images of both Pyotr Petrovich Njegos and other writers and educators.

“My personal and professional position is very clear: as long as I hold the post of director, the image of St. Sava will not be shifted by a millimeter,” Slavica Stupic said.

She recalled that over the past four decades, no audit of the language and literature cabinet has ever established that the icon “poses a danger to children and that they feel uncomfortable because of it.”

Saint Sava was the first Serbian archbishop. His legacy lives on in the Orthodox Church tradition of the Slavic peoples. The edition of the Kormchai, belonging to the saint, of the book with the interpretations of Alexy Aristin became the most widespread in the Russian Orthodox Church. In 1270, Metropolitan Kirill of Kiev was sent from Bulgaria the first list of the Helmsmen of Saint Sava. One of the most ancient Russian Helmsmen was written off from him.

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