Saint Nicodemus, Archbishop of Pec

Life

This great hierarch was a Serb by birth. He struggled ascetically on the Holy Mountain and was Abbot of Hilandar. After the death of Sava III he was elected Archbishop "of all the Serbian and coastal lands" in the year 1317. He crowned King Milutin in 1321. He translated the Jerusalem Typikon into Serbian. In the preface to this book he says: "Almighty God, Who knows our weakness, will grant us spiritual power, but only if we first show effort." He sincerely loved the ascetical life and labored at the eradication of the Bogomil heresy and the strengthening of the Orthodox faith. He reposed in the Lord in 1325. His wonderworking relics rest in the monastery in Pec.