A great man is one who collects knowledge the way a bee collects honey and uses it to help people overcome the difficulties they endure - hunger, ignorance and disease!
- Nikola Tesla
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin Roosevelt
While their territory has been devastated and their homes despoiled, the spirit of the Serbian people has not been broken.
- Woodrow Wilson
Stanislava 1906 - 1907, Petar M. 1861 - 1906, Nane A. 1877 - 1944
OVDIJE POCIVA
STANISLAVA
P. VUKASOVICH
RODJENA
SUTTER CREEK
11 OTO. 1906
UMRLA
22. MAJA 1907
LAKA TI
ZEMLJA
OVDIJE POČIVA
PETAR M.
VUKASOVICH
RODJEN
U LIPCE BOKI
KOTTORSKOJ
AUSTRIA
19. DEC. 1861
UMRO
27 DEC. 1906
SUTTER CREEK
VJEČNAJA
PAMJAT
OVDIJE POCIVA
NANE
A. VUKOVICH
PRIJED BILA
VUKASOVICH
R. JANUVARA 10, 1977
UMRLA
SEPTEBRA 5, 1944
VJECNAJOJ
PAMJAT
I POKOJ DUSI
As the son of Stevan Udicki, notary, and Anica Udicki Pavlovich, he was born on January 14, 1911, in Velika Kikinda, Banat. He finished the public and secondary school at Velika Kikinda and Timisoara (Romania), the Seminary in Sremski Karlovci (Yugoslavia) in 1930, when he entered the University of Belgrade and finished the Faculty of Orthodox Theology in June 1934.
After the military service in the Red Cross company in Bitola (Yugoslavia) in 1934/35, he became a teacher of the Seminary and gymnasium in Bitola on March 15, 1935. On November 14, he was ordained a priest, on special duty at the monastery church of St. John the Baptist in Bitola till 1938, when passed the examination of a Master degree.
He took monastic vows in the Monastery of Hilandar in 1936.
In September 1938 he went to the U.S.A., to Libertyville, Illinois, taking up there the job of a secretary of the Orthodox Diocese and later on duty of a priest at the Holy Trinity Church at Butte, Montana. In order to complete the studies necessary for getting the PhD degree, he went in 1939 to Athens (Greece), but soon returned to Yugoslavia because of the war between Greece and Italy. Having transferred studies to the University of Belgrade he passed the examination on June 11, 1940. Working on preparation of the dissertation he went to Petrovgrad, Banat (Yugoslavia), where he remained till 1945. During the wartime between Yugoslavia and Germany, he was just a manual worker, and later in 1943 he became again a teacher in Gymnasium and helped at the Church in Petrovgrad. In June 1945 he was forced by communists to leave because of his faith.
The Divine Eucharist as the All-Encompassing Mystery of the Church
by Nenad Milosevic
