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| | Bishop Nikolai Velimirovich Serbia's New Chrysostom |
 | | Bishop Nikolai was born December 23, the feast of Saint Naum of Ochrid, 1880, the eldest of nine children. |
 | | Bishop Nikolai's gifts were also recognized abroad, and in 1921 he was invited again to America, where in just half a year, he delivered more than one hundred lectures, raised funds for his orphanages, and laid the groundwork for the organization of the Serbian Orthodox Church in America. |
 | | Bishop Nikolai, however, had always expressed the desire to be buried in his homeland, and twenty-five years later, on April 27, 1991, his relics were transferred to the monastery of Chetinje, to a spot long reserved for him beside the grave of his blessed disciple, Archimandrite Justin Popovich. |
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