On the bank of the Danube, we still have the Kozarica spring, where the so-called St. George’s Day (Đurđevdan) dawn gatherings (uranci) were held. It is right on the bank of the Danube. We used to go to the spring, and the local priest would hold a service there. The village slava (patron saint day) in Čortanovci is St. George’s Day, May 6th, and on May 5th in the afternoon, there was a gathering of Čortanovci residents by the Danube at that spring. A fire was lit, and people sat by the fire all night. They waited for dawn, for the girls to wash their faces, to be healthy. … The pupils went there too and would pick masterwort (selen) along the way. In the morning on the 6th, when it had dawned, people would go to Čortanovci and open their gates – because in Srem, it’s the custom to open the gates, to welcome guests, because in Srem, you don’t get invited to the village slava, you just go. After the war, the people of Čortanovci were wise – to preserve this custom by the Danube, they invented the May Day (May 1st) dawn gathering. … Now that spring is tidied up, and records say that Saint Sava was there when he went to reconcile his brother Stefan the First-Crowned with the Hungarian King Andrew II near the Kovilj monastery, and the Kovilj monastery was built to mark that reconciliation.