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And it was he who recorded the words of Njegoš forcing the Montenegrins to bury him in Lovćen:
“It is my last wish, which I ask you to fulfill, and if you do not give me the faith of God that you will do what I want, then I will leave you before the curse, and my last moment will be the saddest and my pain. I put it in your soul. “
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Thus, with the demolition of the votive church in Jezerski vrh in 1972, a crime was committed against Saint Peter of Cetinje and Saint Peter II of Lovćenski Tajnovidac, against legates and against the sanctuary. The fulfillment of the vows was announced these days by the Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Litoral Amfilohije:
– To rebuild the church in Lovćen! We are now building the church of Patriarch Gavril in his village of Vrijci, and before we return to Lovćen, which I hope will be next year, we will first build the 20th church that landed in Lovćen.
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THE VOTE was not fulfilled immediately, because on the day of Njegoš’s funeral (October 20, 1851) there was a great storm, so it was not possible to reach Jezerski vrh in Lovćen, and it was feared that the Turks would loot the sanctuary. He was buried in Cetinje, and his bones were transferred to Lovćen on August 27, 1855 and remained in the chapel until August 12, 1916. Then, by order of the Austro-Hungarian authorities, an exhumation and the remains of the great poet were transferred to the monastery of Cetinje. Jezerski vrh church was destroyed. At the suggestion of Metropolitan Gavril Dožić, the Lovćen chapel was rebuilt and on September 21, 1925, Njegoš was reburied.
The coffin was brought to the renovated church, very similar to the one destroyed by the Austro-Hungarians, by King Aleksandar Karađorđević (grandson of Prince Nikola Petrović), members of the Government of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, and bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
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However, the remains of the great poet could not rest in peace. By decision of the communist authorities, despite fierce opposition from the smartest people in the former Yugoslavia, the Njegoš votive chapel was demolished in the 1970s and instead a mausoleum was built based on the sculptor’s ideas. Ivan Meštrović. Since then, there have been controversies and efforts by fans of Njegoš’s work to find a church at Jezerski vrh, rather than the “tomb of the pharaoh” as the great statesman himself imagined.
The announcement of the new church in Lovćen was greeted with a “knife” by the regime’s media, announcing the falsehoods that Metropolitan Amfilohije is calling for the renovation of the “1925 Alexander Chapel”.
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– That is absolutely false. For thirty years, the metropolitan has asked the authorities to restore the donation of Njegoš, the destroyed church of St. Peter of Cetinje with the tomb of Njegoš and, as stated in a letter to Montenegrin Prime Minister Igor Lukšić in 2012, ” completely adequate for the size of Njegoš’s original donation, without further ado (1925) he added fences. ” So the original Njegoš chapel from 1846, and not the 1925 one, which was renovated after the Austro-Hungarian destruction, says, for “Novosti”, Jovan Markuš, a publicist.
And in that letter, Metropolitan Amfilohije demands the renovation of the oldest church dedicated to Saint Peter of Cetinje, in accordance with the last will and legacy of his son Peter II Petrović Njegoš.
– If it is not possible to erect it in the same place (it seems to be the atrium of the mausoleum) where Njegoš laid the first stone with his own hand and on which it was built and renovated in 1925, it must be erected in the immediate vicinity, in the area between the exits (from the monster tunnel) and the atrium of the mausoleum, completely adequate for the size of the original Njegoš endowment, without a later additional fence (1925), wrote Bishop Amfilohije. – We hope that the Government of Montenegro, aware of its construction of the State and responsibility towards Njegos, has foresight and disposition to heal the deep and too deep wound of Lovcen, if only for the fraternal reconciliation of the Orthodox Corps of Montenegro, to restore the rights. and justice in him, and therefore out of concern for his true future.
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In the letter, the metropolitan adds: “One thing is clearer than the sun: whoever is capable of doing that will be written in indelible letters in the history of Montenegro and humanity. Because this act will undoubtedly remove the curse of the Metropolitan Pedro II Petrovic Njegos of Montenegro and his country in general “. offspring. “
WHILE the greatest poet of the Slavic language in his Montenegro was crucified in recent decades, expelled from textbooks, “printed” his “Mountain Crown” in Latin, Njegos grew. And untouchable, especially for the wicked and ignorant. And how many geniuses are alive in heaven and on earth, is confirmed by the temples built in recent years in Montenegro, Serbia, Republika Srpska, following the example of the destroyed chapel in Lovćen.
– It happens as in the time when churches flew. It is as if they were born from every stone taken from Lovćen. It is as if four local saints, whose figures it was decorated, flew to all four sides and stood up to defend it – said Matija Bećković, during the consecration of the Njegoš church next to the Toplica Cathedral in Bar.
The first replica of the Lovćen Chapel was built immediately after its demolition, in 1972, in Prčanj, in the Bay of Kotor. The parish priest of Kotor, Archpriest-Staurophore Momcilo Krivokapić, gave a stamp to that effort, the construction of the Church of St. Peter of Cetinje. The first stone was laid and consecrated by the then Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Danilo Dajković. It was December 3, 1972, and already at Easter 1975, the first service of God was served in the church.
WRIGHT AMAZED BY THE ARCHITECTURE
THE FOUNDER of modern architecture, American Frank Lloyd Wright, who visited Montenegro between the two world wars, was in awe of the architectural beauty of the church in Lovćen. When he learned that Njegos had “drawn” the church-chapel, Wright exclaimed:
– Njegos was really ingenious when he came up with this solution, because the circular shape is the true crown of the Lovcen summit. It can be seen from all sides and it looks the same from all sides, said Wright, who was the husband of Grand Duke and hero Marko Miljanov’s granddaughter Olga Ivanova Lazović.
DECORATION FOR ĆAZIMS
DURING the consecration of the Lovćenski Tajnovidac church in Bar, Metropolitan Amfilohije awarded the Njegoš decoration to Ćazim Mahmutović of Paris. Ćazim is the son of the late Isa Mahmutović (pictured), who was the only worker who refused to demolish the Lovćen Chapel of St. Peter of Cetinje in 1972, and thus lost his job.
OPPONENTS
The demolition of the church in Lovćen was opposed by prominent writers and creators such as Meša Selimović, who shouted “don’t put a chair on Lovćen”. The fiercest opponents of the demolition were the Serbian Orthodox Church and its metropolitan Cetinje, as well as numerous scientists who claimed that “the mountain itself would reject the glamorous building.”
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