
English title: The Cult of Saints, Sites of Memory, and Political Myths: The Example of Vujan Monastery, the Burial Church of the Lunjevica Family The article The Cult of Saints, Sites of Memory, and Political Myths: The Example of Vujan Monastery, the Burial Church of the Lunjevica Family analyzes the symbolic topography of Vujan Monastery as a space in which, over the past two centuries, the cult of an unknown saint, the memory of national heroes, the funerary memory of the Lunjevica family, the dynastic symbolism of the Obrenović family, and new forms of political mythology have overlapped. The article starts from the premise that sites of memory are not static remnants of the past, but spaces of continuous reinterpretation, reshaping, and expansion of meaning. In this sense, Vujan Monastery is interpreted as an example of a locally venerated sacred space gradually transformed into a complex memorial structure open to new ideological, political, and cultural uses. Particular attention is devoted to Nikola Milićević Lunjevica, who restored the monastery in 1805, the transfer of his remains into the nave of the church in 1902 by order of Queen Draga Obrenović, the graves of the Lunjevica family, Duke Lazar Mutap, and the cult of the unknown saint. The article shows that the idea of the “Vujan pantheon” was shaped through the connection of saintly cults, national heroes, dynastic memory, and local traditions. This structure was not closed: in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries it continued to expand through new interpretations, including the stay of Gojko Stojčević, the future Patriarch Pavle, at Vujan in 1944–1946, tourist practices, and contemporary forms of sacralizing space.
