monastery.ual center of serbian orthodoxy, which is now controlled by the authorities of the unrecognized republic, is in danger of disappearing. but this did not make him any less significant for orthodox serbs. the serbian patriarch called for peace among the serbs and albanians living nearby. we cannot want peace only for ourselves, we want peace for our neighbors too. for serbs, christmas eve and christmas, badnidan and bozishch, are probably the most important holidays of the year, despite 500 years of turkish yoke, these people managed to preserve their faith and their traditions. preparations for badni dan's christmas eve begin in the morning, when stern serbian men like goran petrovic go into the forest to get badnik, oak branches. da padne u ime sina i svetoga duha. amin. prezident respubliki serbskoj milorad dodic сnukom. pomozi bože i sveti badnjače. prekrši se i uzmit. while serbian men are cutting down the forest, at home at this time women are baking kolaches, pies and chestnitsa,

monastery.tual center of serbian orthodoxy, which is now controlled by the authorities of the unrecognized republic, is under. we take the oak tree and go home. the day before , the president of the republika srpska milorad dodik and his grandchildren went into the forest; whether he drank brandy there is unknown, but he wielded an ax masterfully. while serbian men are cutting down the forest, at home at this time women are baking kolaches, pies and honesty, a special christmas bread in which they hide a coin, in the morning the honesty will be broken into pieces, the one who finds the coin will be happy rich all year. we hope the lord will help us, may there be happiness and peace in our land, gifts to children in the house instead. christmas trees are placed under the same badnik, and the monastery wine is drunk together with dried dogwood, you take the bone under your tongue and take a sip of wine, this is such a tradition, you will be as healthy as a dogwood for the whole year. and of course