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In 1845 Peter II Petrovic-Njegos expressed his desire to be buried after his death in the chapel, which he founded on Mount Lovcen. But after his death in 1851, fearing a possible attack on the grave of the Turkish Pasha Skadar Shkodra, the governor decided to be buried in the Cetinje monastery, near the grave of his predecessor Peter I Petrovic. August 26, 1855 his remains were transferred to Lovcen. Before the throne, Prince of Montenegro Danilo Petrovic-Njegos opened the sarcophagus, to see whether the corpse decomposed undecomposed corpse after death in Orthodoxy is considered one of the grounds for canonization, on the same basis was canonised predecessor Peter II, but to then only the right hand remained on it.