Visarion, Metropolitan of Herzegovina

The Banat Uprising (1594), in which the Serbs in Banat rose up against the Ottomans,{{cite book|author=Rajko L. Veselinović|title=(1219-1766). Udžbenik za IV razred srpskih pravoslavnih bogoslovija. (Yu 68-1914)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QogsAQAAMAAJ|year=1966|publisher=Sv. Arh. Sinod Srpske pravoslavne crkve|pages=70–71}} had been aided by Visarion and Metropolitan Rufim Njeguš of Cetinje.{{cite book|title=Editions speciales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo0KVB-MPQ0C|year=1971|publisher=Naučno delo}} The rebels' war flags with the icon of Saint Sava{{cite book|author=Nikolaj Velimirović|title=The Life of St. Sava|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L0-Or1eDv1wC|date=January 1989|publisher=St. Vladimir's Seminary Press|isbn=978-0-88141-065-5|page=159}} had been consecrated by Serbian Patriarch Jovan Kantul.{{cite book|author=Mitja Velikonja|title=Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina|url=https://archive.org/details/religiousseparat0000veli|url-access=registration|date=5 February 2003|publisher=Texas A&M University Press|isbn=978-1-58544-226-3|pages=[https://archive.org/details/religiousseparat0000veli/page/75 75]–}} Ottoman Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha ordered the flag of Muhammad be brought to counter the Serb flag, as well as the sarcophagus and relics of Saint Sava located in the Mileševa monastery be brought by military convoy to Belgrade. Along the way, the Ottomans had people killed in their path so that the rebels in the woods would hear of it. The relics were publicly incinerated by the Ottomans on a pyre on the Vračar plateau, and the ashes scattered, on April 27, 1595.

Among the Serbs, especially after the incineration of the relics of St. Sava, the liberation movement met a large response. The center of action for Herzegovina was since 1596 the Tvrdoš Monastery in Trebinje, where Metropolitan Visarion was seated. Many of the Orthodox bishops called to Austria for help in liberating their lands.{{harvnb|Ćorović|2001|loc=Преокрет у држању Срба}} In 1596 the liberation movement and fighting would spread into Ottoman Montenegro and the neighbouring tribes in Herzegovina, especially under influence of Metropolitan Visarion.{{cite book|title=Editions speciales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uo0KVB-MPQ0C|year=1971|publisher=Naučno delo|quote=Дошло ]е до похреаа Срба у Ба- нату, ко]и су помагали тадаппьи црногоски владика, Херувим и тре- бюьски, Висарион. До покрета и борбе против Ту рака дошло ]е 1596. године и у Цр- иэ] Гори и сус]едним племенима у Харцеговгаш, нарочито под утица- ]ем поменутог владике Висариона. Идупе, 1597. године, [...] Али, а\адика Висарион и во]вода Грдан радили су и дал>е на организован>у борбе, па су придобили и тадапньег пеЬког патри^арха 1ована. Ова] ]е папи Клименту VIII послао писмо, у коме каже да би се, у случа^у када би папа организовао напад на Нови, дигла на оруж]е и херцего- вачка племена: Зупци, Никшипи, Пивл>ани, Банъани, Дробшаци, Рудине и Гацко. Пошто ...}} A Ragusan document from the beginning of 1596 claimed that the metropolitan and many Herzegovinian chieftains gathered in the Trebinje Monastery where they swore oath "to give up and donate 20,000 heroes to the [Austrian] emperors' light."{{cite book|author=Istorisko društvo Bosne i Hercegovine|title=Annuaire de la Société historique de Bosnie et Herzégovine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRIQAQAAMAAJ|year=1959|publisher=Istorisko društvo Bosne i Hercegovine|quote=из Дубровника из почетка 1596 тврди да су се многи херцего- вачки главари са митрополитом састали у требшьском манастиру и заклели »да Ье се дати и поклонити светлости импературови су 20 тисуЪа ]унака«. Устаници траже помоЬ или бар симболично аустриску заставу као доказ везе са Аустри]ом. Ускоро ^е дошло до ускочког осва^ан>а Клиса (8 IV 1596) што ]е изазвало силно узбзфеиье од Лике до Херцеговине. Ускоци су ако развили сво^е походе; на бедемима дубровачким ста^але су отсечене главе цоги- нулих харамбаша"). Шпанско-папска флота била ^е у Месини и очекивала наре1>еNoе за удар против турских обала3"). На новом збору у Требин>у владиха Висарион и главари упутали су Доминика да оде у Грац и Праг. Избавили су да чекану »заповест за устанак«; тада ]е Клис ]ош био ускочки. Из Граца ]е стигао агент Михо ЗлатариЬ те ...}} The rebels sought help or at least, symbolically, the Austrian flag as a proof of connection with Austria. At the end of 1596, after the Himariote rebellion, the Serbs started to revolt. The uprising broke out in Bjelopavlići, then spread to Drobnjaci, Nikšić, Piva and Gacko, and was led by vojvoda Grdan of Nikšić. The uprising was short-lived, as the rebels were defeated at Gacko. The rebels were forced to capitulate due to lack of foreign support.{{cite book|author1=Trevor W. Harrison|author2=Slobodan Drakulic|title=Against Orthodoxy: Studies in Nationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wj0FnFIt6GUC&pg=PA99|date=31 August 2011|publisher=UBC Press|isbn=978-0-7748-2096-7|pages=99–}} After the failure of the uprising, many Herzegovinians moved to the Bay of Kotor and Dalmatia.{{cite book|author=Jovan Cvijić|title=Sabrana dela: Balkansko Poluostrvo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cpYiAAAAMAAJ|year=1987|publisher=Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti|page=145|isbn=9788639100445}} Grdan and Patriarch Jovan would continue to plan revolts against the Ottomans in the coming years.

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