From the Prologue of Ochrid
One of the Serbian noblemen who governed the Serbian kingdom after Emperor Dusan. After the death of Emperor Uros, Lazar was crowned by Patriarch Ephraim as Serbian emperor. He sent an embassy to Constantinople with the monk Isaiah to ask that the anathema be lifted from the Serbian people. He fought against the Turkish power on several occasions. Finally he clashed on the Field of Kosovo on June 15, 1389, with the Turkish Emperor Murad, where he was slain. His body was transferred and buried in his endowment of Ravanica near Cuprija, and later transferred from there to Ravanica in Srem, whence during the Second World War (1942) it was transferred to Belgrade and placed in the Cathedral Church, where it rests incorrupt to this day and offers consolation and healing to all who turn to him in prayer. He restored Hilandar and Gornjak; built Ravanica and Lazarica; was a benefactor of the Russian Monastery of Panteleimon as well as many other churches and monasteries. (His holy relics now rest in the Monastery of Ravanica.)
