Burning of Saint Sava's relics

When the Serbs in Banat rose up against the Ottomans in 1594, using the portrait of Saint Sava on their war flags, the Ottomans retaliated by incinerating the relics of St. Sava on the Vračar plateau in Belgrade.

[1] Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha, the main commander of the Ottoman army, ordered that the relics be brought from Mileševa to Belgrade, where he had them burned on 27 April.

[3] Commemoration of the burning of Saint Sava's relics (Serbian: Спаљивање моштију светога Саве) is now a Serbian Orthodox religious holiday celebrated on 27 April (10 May in the Gregorian calendar).

He was canonized as a miracle-worker and his religious cult was assimilated into folk beliefs in Ottoman times.

The veneration of his relics created tension between Serbs and the occupying Ottomans.