05 — The Confessor Under Communism

The second half of Justin’s life: stripped of his university chair by the new communist authorities in 1945, he spent more than three decades in internal exile at the convent of Ćelije near Valjevo, living as spiritual father to the nuns, writing under surveillance, and becoming — without ever leaving Yugoslavia — a confessor of the faith.

This section covers the years from 1945 to his death in 1979. The first file treats the outward frame: the removal from the University of Belgrade, the arrangement that placed him at the Convent of the Holy Archangels at Ćelije, and the conditions of his long confinement under the Tito regime. The second treats the inward reality: the ascetic-scholar’s hidden life of prayer, liturgy, and prodigious literary labor, carried on under the eyes of a hostile state.

Contents

File	Description
celije-monastery.md	The removal from the University in 1945; the Ćelije convent near Valjevo; decades of internal exile under the communist regime
a-life-of-hidden-prayer.md	The ascetic-scholar under surveillance; the liturgical life, the writing, and the eldership at Ćelije

See Also

• 02 — Student Years and Monastic Formation — the Belgrade chair from which he was removed
• 07 — The Writings — the vast literary work produced at Ćelije
• 09 — Glorification and Legacy — the confessor glorified in 2010