ABSTRACT
The epilogue discusses the current uses of Irenaeus’s name in Sremska Mitrovica (ancient Sirmium), a municipality within the Republic of Serbia. Several newly built public monuments emerged in the municipality during the 1990s. They were all named after Irenaeus: the bridge of St. Irenaeus, a street bearing his name, and a church dedicated to the martyrs of Sirmium, Irenaeus among them. These monuments are deeply attached to Serbia’s political and religious contexts of the 1990s and to the local community of Sremska Mitrovica at the time. The monuments taking Irenaeus’s name functioned as consent to the collective memory of the community, which was reimagining its past amid the crisis, wars, and turmoil of the 1990s.
