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Wikipedia: Vidovdan is a Serbian religious holiday, St. Vitus' Day, whose feast is on June 15 (Gregorian Calendar, June 28 according to the Julian Calendar, in use by the Serbian Orthodox Church). It is a Slava (Patron saint feast day) of St. Vitus, connected in Serbian culture to the Battle of Kosovo, among other events. The feastday is sacred to ethnic Serbs (Serbian Orthodox Christians) and the cult was especially active among the South Slavic Serbs, who transformed the pagan Slavic god (deity) of war, fertility and abundance "Svetovid" (Vid) into the Sicilian martyr (St. Vitus) -who exorcized the evil out of Diocletian's son, at the time of the final christianization of the Serbs during the rule of Basil I (867 - 886) by Byzantine missionairies of Constantinople Cyril and Methodius.
![[Saint Vitus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Vitus_CXXVr_s.jpg "Saint Vitus, from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493")
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