His Eminence Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Joanikije today, February 2, in Veliki Trnovo in Bulgaria, visited the Church of the Holy Forty Martyrs of Sebaste and visited the tomb of Saint Sava, where the first Serbian Archbishop was originally buried.

From Trnovo, the city where the saint fell asleep in the Lord on his return from his second pilgrimage to the Holy Land, King Vladislav transferred the relics of Saint Sava, with the highest church and state honors, to the Mileševo ​​Monastery in 1237.

Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral His Holiness Patriarch Joanikije is on a multi-day visit to Bulgaria, where yesterday, in the Cathedral Church of the Holy Brothers Cyril and Methodius in the Bulgarian city of Lovech, on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the service of Metropolitan Gabriel on the throne of the Lovech Diocese, he participated in the Eucharistic assembly, which was presided over by His Holiness Patriarch Danilo of Bulgaria.

Accompanying His Eminence Metropolitan Joanikije are his secretary and the hierarchal vicar of Cetinje, Archpriest Ostoja Knežević, and hieromonk Nikolaj, a confrere of the Ostrog Monastery.