Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God – Patron Saint-day of the town of Pancevo
Church of Serbia – 1/9/19
This year citizens of Pancevo celebrated solemnly the Patron Saint-day (slava) of the church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God with the Holy Liturgy, a procession through the city and for the first time, breaking the slava cake in the Town Hall.
With the effort of the clergy of the Holy Dormition Church, the town authorities accepted that from this year the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God is celebrated as the town slava.
Following the Liturgy, clergy, representatives of the Town Hall, Army and Police, members of the cultural art society Stanko Pavlovic, members of the choir of the Pancevo Serbian Church Singing Society and believers went in the procession through the town streets until the Municipality headquarters where they broke the slava cake.
