Diva Grabovčeva (born in Rumboci (Prozor-Rama) – died c. 1680, Kedžara) is a legendary figure in the folklore of Bosnian Catholic people, portrayed as a virgin martyr.
At the beginning of the 20th century the archaeologist Ćiro Truhelka found mortal remains in a grave at Kedžara, which he claimed belonged to a young girl, and associated it with the legend, claiming that it could be Diva Grabovčeva.
[1] Although Diva was neither recorded in chronicles of the Franciscan friary, Šćit [bs] in Prozor-Rama, nor its martyrology,[2] she became a symbol of virginity, and the grave marked by Truhelka a pilgrimage site, which the local Catholics used in a usually very intimate, a private, rite of sacramental oath or sacramentum.
[1] Ivan Markešić [hr], Bosnian Croat sociologist and Christian theologian, critically assessed current perception of the myth, questioning a narrative's very public celebration from the 1990s onward, and a potential for political abuse and excessive glorification of the time past in relation to present, especially as a means of otherization.
[1] The author of Diva Grabovčeva statue is the well known sculptor Kuzma Kovačić.