On the very bank of the Danube is the Kozarica spring, where St. George’s Day early risings used to take place. We went to the spring and there the local priest performed the service. The patron saint day in Čortanovci is St. George’s Day, May 6th. A day earlier, on the afternoon of May 5th, locals gathered by the Danube at that spring. A fire was lit and people sat by it all night. They waited for dawn so the girls could wash their faces with spring water for health. Students also went there and picked lovage along the way. In the morning of May 6th, people went to the village and gates were opened to welcome guests. In Srijem, the custom is not to invite guests for the village patron saint day, but simply to come. After the war, the locals were wise so they invented the May 1st Labour Day picnic to preserve that custom of gathering by the river. Now the spring is arranged. Records say that Saint Sava stayed there when he went to reconcile his brother Stefan the First-Crowned with the Hungarian King Andrew II. The Kovilj Monastery was built on the occasion of that reconciliation.