Skopje, 1 February 2023 (MIA) – To mark the 151st anniversary of the birth of the great Macedonian revolutionary Goce Delchev, several delegations will lay flowers on Feb. 4 (Saturday) at his grave in the Skopje church of St. Spas.

According to government’s press release, President Stevo Pendarovski will lay flowers at Goce Delchev’s grave.

A government delegation, led by Prime Minister Dimitar Kovachevski, including First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Political System and Inter-Community Relations Artan Grubi, Defence Minister Slavjanka Petrovska, Interior Minister Oliver Spasovski and Culture Minister Bisera Kostadinovska-Stojchevska will lay fresh flowers at Goce Delchev’s grave.

Goce Delchev was born to Sultana and Nikola Delchevi in Kukush on Feb. 4, 1872. After attending the Thessaloniki High School, he graduated from the Sofia Military Academy.

Delchev worked as a schoolmaster in Shtip. He was also a member of the Central Committee of the Secret Macedonian Revolutionary Organization, founding a network of bases, committees, and rebel bands.

He participated in the 1896 Thessaloniki Congress of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and served as its foreign representative in Sofia until 1901.

On May 4, 1903, Delchev was killed by the Turkish army in the village of Banica, on his way to Serres.

His remains have been kept in the St. Spas church in Skopje since 1946.