{{Short description|Serbian Orthodox Cleric}} '''Visarion Saraj''' also known as '''Visarion Sarai''' (1714–1744)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgYsAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Visarion+Saraj%22+-wikipedia|title=Serbian Orthodox Church: Its Past and Present|date=1966|publisher=Serbian Patriarchy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y7UrAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Visarion+Saraj%22+-wikipedia|title=Astrolabes and Angels, Epigrams and Enigmas: From Regiomontanus' Acrostic for Cardinal Bessarion to Piero Della Francesca's Flagellation of Christ|date=2007|publisher=Steiner|isbn=9783515090612}}</ref> was an Orthodox cleric who was targeted by members of the Habsburg Dynasty for speaking his mind which led to him being imprisoned in Deva and then sent to a jail in Timișoara and from there to Sankt Ruprecht an der Raab before being tortured to death in the dungeon of the Kufstein Fortress in the Kaiser Mountains of the city of Tyrol.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j1ytAgAAQBAJ&q=Visarion+Sarai&pg=PA61|title=A Concise History of Romania|last=Hitchins|first=Keith|date=2014-02-20|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521872386}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d1cdAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Visarion+Saraj%22|title=Интервјуи и говори др Радована Караџића, Volume 2|last1=Караџић|first1=Радован|year=2005|isbn=9788675270249}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wc6EDwAAQBAJ&q=Visarion+Sarai&pg=PA63|title=Rampart Nations: Bulwark Myths of East European Multiconfessional Societies in the Age of Nationalism|last1=Berezhnaya|first1=Liliya|last2=Hein-Kircher|first2=Heidi|date=2019-03-01|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9781789201482}}</ref> Because of this, the Holy Synods of the Romanian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church introduced Vissarion in the calendar of their Saints.

==See also== * List of Serbian saints

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Category:1717 births Category:1744 deaths