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Najdanović encouraged his parishioners to purchase a building and property in the center of
Montreal at 4259 de Bullion Street. The second floor of the building was adapted for a chapel and an apartment while the ground floor space was turned into a hall and a fellowship room. The commissions for the
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joined Hitler avoiding "occupation". Before the Soviet troops liberated
Belgrade and before the provisional government of the so-called Democratic Federal Yugoslavia put Tito in power for life, Najdanović left his teaching post at the Faculty of Theology and with his wife Jelena (née Filipović) left
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Najdanović's theological position can only be explained in connection with
Nikolaj Velimirović, and the manner in which while adopting he modified and carried out the principles of his master. Characteristically meditative, he rested with a secure footing on the great central truths of Christianity
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were lecturing. Najdanović found in them the very impulse which he needed, while
Hartmann and Spranger found a pupil of thoroughly congenial feeling, and one destined to carry out their views in a higher and more effective Christian form than they themselves were capable of imparting. Najdanović's
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He followed the events of the escalating conflict between
Austria and Serbia, but until 1914 he was not yet ready to participate in anything other than relief work and home training. Soon after he turned seventeen—old enough for wartime military—a relative managed to arrange an appointment to an
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were given to master woodcarver
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but strongly impressed him with that dread of anarchy, of popular movements ending in bloodshed, and of communistic, socialistic and fascistic views which characterized him in after life (no differently than
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camp along with
Russian refugees from Yugoslavia, they bore witness to that terrible occasion when the Occupation Forces betrayed the Cossack refugees to the Soviets, to be carried away and shot. That grim episode of forced
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officers' training program. He saw action on the
Eastern Front, the retreat over the Albanian mountains and the opening of the Salonika front, and the eventual hard-earned victory in 1918.
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