They marked the 430th anniversary of the Sisak victory over the Turks

Feast of St. Acacia and 10000 Armenian martyrs, the 430th anniversary of the well-known Sisak victory over the Turks and the reminiscence of all Croatian defenders who fell for the freedom of Sisak, Croatia and Europe, have been commemorated on Thursday in Gredi in the parish of Sela close to Sisak.

A solemn mass party, as introduced through the Diocese of Sisak, in the front of the chapel of St. Acacia become led through the bishop of Sisak, Msgr. Vlado Košić, who mentioned that it's miles a lifestyle that on June 22, a holy mass is widely known at this area in memory of the famous victory in Sisak, whilst the few but courageous defenders stopped the Ottoman invasion.

– It turned into a exceptional victory, so all the bells rang in Central Europe, Vienna, Budapest and of path in Zagreb to commemorate that occasion – said Košić and brought that during Zagreb every day at 2 o’clock inside the afternoon, whilst that war ended, that is, whilst word came that the Christian navy had gained, a small bell rang for five minutes.

He also reminded that for the reason that 2010 the bells at the Sisak Cathedral were trained to ring at the same time. That bell is also a signal of the difficult life throughout the centuries in this vicinity of ​​ours, he mentioned and brought that it became special while Croatia turned into martyred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

He emphasized that at that time many humans have been killed and expelled from our areas and delivered that it is still the case to at the present time because our region turned into usually attacked, constantly had to be defended and it turned into constantly difficult to stay there. He recalled the martyrdoms of blessed Alojzije Stepinac, Miroslav Bulešić and the Drina martyrs and asked who were the ones who devoted the crimes against them.

– Mostly it changed into human beings in strength who exercised their energy over the harmless because of their religion, looking to use them as contraptions to serve them – he delivered.

He emphasised that Bleiburg is likewise a fantastic tragedy for our country. It is the Way of the Cross that cut down nearly half a million Croats, cited Bishop Košić and introduced that spitting on it and now not accepting that sacrifice is an indication of disrespect for the man or woman and the folks that had been no longer within the army on the time and who have been disarmed.

There have been, he pointed out, most effective about two hundred thousand civilians on the Blajburg field. They were killed without any trial and chased in the course of this location all of the way to Macedonia, he said and added that extra than 5 hundred priests had been also killed, twenty- of whom were from the Diocese of Sisak.

He also requested how it's far viable to glorify that regime, that crook regime of murderers and admire them, at the same time as despising one’s personal those who suffered so much and were their victims. He assessed that folks who deny communist crimes against Croats are still in price at various degrees of presidency and said that they need to imagine themselves due to the fact the truth is the reality, however sour it could be. The fact is that there are pits all around us, these places of dying that show the bloody nature of the revolution and those who announced a better future, he stated and brought that they persecuted people, abolished all freedoms, particularly religious freedom.