Saint Stephen the Blind sanctified himself through great sufferings for God along with his wife, Saint Angelina, and their two sons, Maximus and John. In his youth, he lived for some time with his sister Mara at the court of Sultan Murad II and was blinded together with his brother Grgur in Edirne. In 1458, Saint Stephen began to rule over the Serbs, but soon had to flee to Albania, where he married Angelina, the daughter of King George. In exile, he raised two sons. He died in Italy, blind and unhappy, but in perfect devotion to God. God glorified him with eternal joy, preserving his relics incorrupt, fragrant, and miraculous. His son, Saint Maximus, was appointed Archbishop of Wallachia and Romania. At the end of his life, he founded a monastery in Krušedol, where his incorrupt and miraculous relics rest together with the relics of his parents and his brother Saint John.
