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The changed clothes of the Holy King Milutin were given to the elder of the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Mother of God in Babin Most, Archpriest Aleksandar Našpalić, by the Vicar of the Bulgarian Patriarch, Bishop Polycarp of Belogradchik.
The holy king’s clothing will be permanently displayed on the royal throne of the Babin Most church.
Serbian Ambassador to Bulgaria Zeljko Jovic and Military Attaché Zeljko Simic attended the liturgy and changed their clothes.
After taking care of his clothes, Ambassador Jović organized a reception for priests and believers who came to Sofia from various parts of Serbia and the Republika Srpska.
According to official historical data, the relics of the Serbian king Milutin were transferred to the town of Trepca before the Turkish devastation, immediately after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389, and after the collapse of Serbian despotism, due to the plague epidemic, the metropolitan Siluan brought them to Bulgaria in 1460.
King Milutin built and renovated 42 churches in Serbia, but he also built temples on the Holy Mountain, in Thessaloniki, Constantinople, Sofia and Jerusalem.
He ruled from 1282 to 1321. He died in Kosovo and Metohija, in Nerodimlje, from where he was transferred to the Banjska monastery.
The cult of the Holy King Milutin has been cultivated in Serbia since 1324, and Stefan Dečanski also called it a saint.
The Roman Catholic Church was against the canonization of King Milutin. However, neither the Turks nor the Hellenized archbishopric of Ohrid allowed Milutin, even in death, to return to Serbia because it was too strong a symbol of his statehood, power and independence.
