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Their Royal Highnesses Prince Vladimir and Princess Brigitta Karadjordjevic visited Father Simeon Rukumijski at the Monastery Rukumija, in the Braničevo District. It is not known for certain when this Monastery was built but supposedly it was in the 14th century. After visiting this magnificent place, Princess Brigitta told a Reporter during one of her interviews, “This place has a most deep and wonderful stillness and calm that holds your soul as if it were in the cradle itself.”
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Vladimir and Princess Brigitta Karadjordjevic visited The Russian Monastery of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God above the village of Lešje. This wonderful Monastery Lešje of the blessed Virgin Mary is situated about ten kilometers southeast of city of Paraćin on the slopes of the mountain Baba. It comes from the Middle Ages and is the oldest building of its type in the Morava Style. The foundations were discovered in 1923.
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Vladimir and Princess Brigita Karadjordjevic were invited to the Slava celebration of the Holy Emperor Constantine the Great and the Glory to the Center for the Study of Orthodox Monarchism. In the battle against Maxentius, when the Holy Emperor Constantine was in great anxiety and uncertainty about his chances of success, a shining cross, surrounded by stars, appeared to him in the sky in full daylight. On the cross were written the words: 'In this sign, conquer!'
Their Royal Highnesses Prince Vladimir and Princess Brigitta Karadjordjevic visited the grave of H.E. the late Dragisa Svetkovic, who was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1939 to 1941. The grave and Monument is found in the village of Dadince in the municipality of Vlasotince. The Prince and Princess layes a wreath on the grave of this much maligned soul, who, on the 25th 3 1941 signed the Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact. The village has a population of 195 people.
