The Eparhija-Prizren (Serbian) website reports that in Gracanica, Kosovo today (March 24, 2010), the 11-year anniversary of the beginning of the NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was marked with the consecration and placing of a cross brought from Herzegovina by monks from Tyrdos Monastery. More than 2,500 civilians died and some 200,000 more were displaced as a result of NATO's air strikes.
Before some 1,000 people, Bishop Atanasije celebrated the memorial service with the con-celebration of Vicar Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan and the clergy of the Orthodox Diocese of Raska and Prizren.
Bishop Atanasije said the Serbs had gone through centuries with a cross on their hearts, none more so than the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija.
He added, "That is why on this cross that has been placed here -- sent by St. Sava's Herzegovina -- it is written that the Serbs from Kosovo and Metohija lived and died for the Holy Cross and golden freedom, and today they are in heaven in bliss and for eternity -- because God created man for eternity."
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