palitch

Updated: August 16, 2026

Podgoritza exclaimed he was a fool to tell me this: "Now she will denounce us in England and America, too!" But they did not deny it. News came from Djakovo that Father Palitch, a plucky Franciscan, whom I had met there in 1908, had been bayoneted to death for refusing to make the sign of the cross in Orthodox fashion.

M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham - Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle