{"id":8513,"date":"2025-07-24T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:17:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T17:17:46","slug":"at-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-brotherhood-of-saint-theodore-in-vrsac-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/winebrotherhoods.org\/en\/2025\/07\/24\/at-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-brotherhood-of-saint-theodore-in-vrsac-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Saint TYeodor Brotherhood, in, VR\u0160AC (Serbia)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Responding to an invitation from Grand Master Nikola CUCULJ,<\/strong> President Marc Lesk traveled to Vr\u0161ac, in the Serbian Banat region of Vojvodina, eastern Serbia, accompanied by Vice President Janesz Dezman.<\/p>\n\n

In Serbia, the 47th congress of FICB was held in 2012<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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The Saint-Th\u00e9odore brotherhood, named after the hero of the fight against the Ottoman occupiers in the 16th century, held a chapter to mark its 20th anniversary, in the presence of several brotherhoods from Serbia, Romania and Hungary, in the buildings of the Helvecija winery<\/a>, built in 1880 by the Swiss merchant Bernard St\u00e4ube.<\/p>\n\n

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After a poetic declamation by an actor, Grand Master Nikola recalled the history of the Brotherhood, founded in 2005, and a member of the F.I.C.B. since 2015; and the history of the region’s wine, which dates back to the 15th century (1494) and whose production reached 56 million liters, its highest level, in 1875, on over 10,000 hectares.<\/p>\n\n

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On the left, Grandmaster Nikola Cuculj, during the declamation.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Several brotherhoods came from other regions of Serbia, as well as from Hungary and Romania. <\/p>\n\n