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The Slava (lit. celebration; Serbian Cyrillic: Слава) also called Krsna Slava (Крсна Слава christened Slava) and Krsno ime (Крсно име christened name) is a Serbian Orthodox Church tradition of the ritual glorification of one’s family’s patron saint among Serbs but also Serbs in Montenegro and Macedonia. The family celebrates the Slava annually on the saint’s feast day. Unlike other major Orthodox Christian nations i.e.