- Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica
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Elder Thaddeus
Отац ТадејArchimandrite Church Serbian Orthodox Church Personal details Birth name Tomislav Štrbulović Born 10 October 1914
VitovnicaDied 13 April 2003 (aged 88)
Bačka PalankaNationality Serb Denomination Serbian Orthodox Christian Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica (Serbian Cyrillic: Отац Тадеј); (born 10 October 1914 in Vitovnica - died 13 April 2003 in Bačka Palanka) was a Serbian Orthodox elder and published author, credited for proposing the idea that our thoughts determine our lives.[1]
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Biography
Elder Thaddeus was born in 1914 in the village of Vitovnica as Tomislav Štrbulović, the son of honourable worker parents.[2] He became a monk in 1935 in the Gornjak monastery. On July 14 that same year, he became a jerođakon. He was given the title of jeromonah on February 3, 1938 in the Rakovica monastery. He became a hegumen in 1949 in Belgrade's Saborna crkva.[1]
Elder Thaddeus was a hegumen at the Vitovnica Monastery from April 14, 1962 until the end of March in 1972.[3]
Published books
“Our starting point is always wrong. Instead of beginning with ourselves, we always want to change others first and ourselves last. If everyone would begin first with themselves, then there would be peace all around!”
—Elder Thaddeus, Our Thoughts Determine our Lives[4]- Kakve su ti misli, takav ti je i život (Our Thoughts Determine our Lives), 2004
References
- ^ a b (in English (translated by Ana Smiljanić)) Our Thoughts Determine our Lives. St. Herman of Alaska Brotherhood. 2009. pp. 26-29. ISBN 978-1-887904-19-3.
- ^ Info on Elder Thaddeus and some of his quotes at Orthodox England
- ^ Info in Serbian on the Vitovnica monastery and Elder Thaddeus at Pravoslavlje.nl
- ^ Elder Thaddeus, pp. 48–49.
External links
Categories:- 1914 births
- 2003 deaths
- Serbian Orthodox Church
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