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

Olga Bataveljic

Olga Bataveljic, art historian, born Vršac, May 16, 1917. Graduated from Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 1941. Researched Serbian art of 18th and 19th centuries. Worked in The Institut for Preservation of Cultural Monuments and The National Museum in Belgrade. During her sojourn in the United States she gathered information about the life and work of painter Milena Pavlovic Barili in New York City.


Bibliography: Milena Pavlovic Barili, Life and Work in New York 1939-1945. (catalogue), Beograd 1979.

(Published in the Encyclopedia of Fine Arts of Yugoslavia, Zagreb, 1984)


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Petar D. Bubreško

Peter D. Bubresko, professor emeritus, fell asleep in the Lord December 3, 2006. He was an associate professor of French literature & language at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, which he joined in 1964-77. He earned his B.A. in 1933 and his M.A. in 1935 from the University of Belgrade. He also studied at the University of Grenoble in France (1933-34). He was a recipient of a scholarship from the French Government (1936-39), he studied at Sorbonne under the guidance of Paul Van Thiegen. He prepared in Paris a doctoral thesis on Yovan Dutchich, a study interrupted by WWII. He taught seven years at the junior college level in Yugoslavia and West Germany and later in the United States at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn (1960-63).

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On The Holy Liturgy

by Bishop Athanasius Yevtich

The Divine Liturgy is at the center of Orthodox Christian life. It is through the Eucharist that the faithful are united with Christ and therefore with one another. Every Eucharistic gathering is an image and a reality of the Heavenly Liturgy, i.e. unceasing Synaxis of angels and saints around God’s throne. Thus the Liturgy is the proclamation of and a real image of God’s Kingdom in this world.

In this television interview conducted by the Logos, a renowned Orthodox theologian and retired Bishop of Zahumlje and Hercegovina, his Grace Atanasije, brings forth these essential points citing historical development of the Liturgies bringing to light the present misunderstanding of certain Liturgical actions and movements.

Bishop Atanasije aptly points out the necessity for Liturgical renewal, i.e. moving away from passive liturgical attendance to active participation and immersion of the soul and body into a full communion with Christ.

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