St. George's Day in Montenegro and Serbia
St. George's Day in Montenegro and Serbia is held on May 6. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual.
Saint George is one of the most important saints in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. He is the patron military saint in Slavic, Georgian and Circassian, Cossack, Chetnik military tradition. Christian synaxaria hold that Saint George was a martyr who died for his faith. On icons, he is usually depicted as a man riding a horse and killing a dragon.
Saint George's Day, known as Đurđevdan in Serbian, is a feast day celebrated on 6 May in the Eastern Orthodox Church. As such, it is celebrated on that date by the Serb community in former Yugoslavia and in the Serb diaspora.