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The Vidovdan Heroes Chapel is a Serbian Orthodox chapel and mausoleum located on the Holy Archangels Georgije and Gavrilo Orthodox Cemetery located in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The crypt of the chapel contains the bodily remains of Gavrilo Princip and other members of Young Bosnia who took part in the assassination of Archduke Franz ...
3 February 1915 (aged 24) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary. Cause of death. Execution by hanging. Resting place. Vidovdan Heroes Chapel, Sarajevo [1] Danilo Ilić ( Serbian Cyrillic: Данило Илић; 27 July 1890 – 3 February 1915) was a Bosnian Serb who was among the chief organisers of the Assassination of Archduke ...
- 3 February 1915 (aged 24), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria-Hungary
- Vidovdan Heroes Chapel, Sarajevo
- Early Life
- Black Hand
- Sarajevo Assassination
Trifko Grabež was born on 28 June [O.S. 16 June] 1895 in Pale, a small town in eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina. His father Đorđe Grabež was a Serbian Orthodoxpriest. At the age of seventeen, Grabež was expelled from school for striking one of his teachers. Grabež left home and moved to Belgrade, which was a part of the Kingdom of Serbia at the time....
When it was announced that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne of Austro-Hungarian Empire, was going to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina in June 1914, Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević, the chief of the Intelligence Department in the Serbian Army and head of the Black Hand, sent seven men, Grabež, Nedeljko Čabrinović, Vaso Čubrilović, Cvjetko ...
On Sunday, 28 June 1914, Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Duchess of Hohenberg arrived in Sarajevo by train. General Oskar Potiorek, Governor of the Austrian provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was waiting to take the royal party to the City Hall for the official reception. In the front car was Fehim Čurčić, the Mayor of Sarajevo and Dr. Gerde, the city...
- 21 October 1916 (aged 21), Theresienstadt, Austria-Hungary
- Vidovdan Heroes Chapel, Sarajevo
The post-mortem remains of the Vidovdan Heroes were collected from all of the prisons in the countries that had been part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where they had been incarcerated. They were later buried in a common grave in Sarajevo on July 7, 1920. Exactly 19 years later, the Chapel of the Holy Archangel was built and dedicated to them ...
Media in category "Vidovdan Heroes chapel". The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total. Groblje Sveti arhanđeli, Georgije i Gavrilo (Sarajevo).jpg 10,239 × 2,254; 16.89 MB. Kapela Vidovdanskih heroja.jpg 1,600 × 1,200; 508 KB. Vidovdanski heroji.jpg 1,000 × 750; 212 KB.
The Chapel of Vidovdan Heroes was built in 1939 at the Orthodox Cemetery in Kosevo (Sarajevo). The project was led by architect Alexander Deroko. The chapel was built in the Byzantine style and was conceived as a common tomb. The remains of the assassins were transferred and buried in a common tomb in 1920, and 19 years later they were placed ...
The Vidovdan Heroes Chapel is a Serbian Orthodox chapel and mausoleum located on the Holy Archangels Georgije and Gavrilo Orthodox Cemetery located in Sarajevo. The crypt of the chapel contains the bodily remains of Gavrilo Princip and other members of Young Bosnia who took part in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 ...
