On the night of the Feast of the Cross, at two o\u2019clock after midnight, Abbess Hristina fell asleep in the Lord. She was the long-serving head of the Ljubostinja Monastery and one of the most respected nuns of the Serbian Orthodox Church. News of her repose deeply shook the faithful people and the sisterhood of this holy community, at whose head Mother Hristina spent more than three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mother Hristina, born as Velika Obradovi\u0107 on December 20, 1931, in the village of Sedlari near Trebinje, tied her life\u2019s path to the Church at an early age. She came to the Ljubostinja Monastery in her youth and received monastic tonsure in 1951 from the then Bishop of \u0160umadija, Valerijan, when she was given the name by which she would become a symbol of spiritual steadfastness \u2013 Hristina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the death of the renowned Abbess Varvara in 1995, the monastery sisterhood and the then Bishop Sava Vukovi\u0107 entrusted her with the governance of the shrine. As abbess, Mother Hristina for decades was the quiet strength that preserved the tradition and spirituality of the endowment of Princess Milica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n