Stana Cerović

After being injured by one of his cattle in 2015, he sold them off. After being featured on Montenegrin television, offers of assistance to Cerović were made from around the country, such as travelogues offering him more exposure to the public eye, and news articles asking for monetary aid on his behalf. The local authorities arranged for him to be moved to a care home in 2016 at a house in Risan for the elderly poor. It was reported by Montenegrin state television in early August 2016 that he had died. At the time of his death, he was considered, incorrectly, to be the last sworn virgin in Montenegro.

Stana Cerović (1936–2016) was a Montenegrin burrneshë (sworn virgin) in rural Montenegro. He was part of the practice that permitted Albanian and Montenegrin people who were assigned female at birth to take on the gender role of men. By the time of his death, he was known, incorrectly, as the last such virgin in the country.

Stana Cerović was born in 1936 in a village near Šavnik, Montenegro, as the daughter of Anda and Milivoje Cerović. She had three sisters and two brothers. Both brothers died in childhood, and Cerović promised her father that she would continue to look after the family and live as a man. She began dressing as a man, and only socialised with men. Cerović began to smoke when she was five, and worked in the fields on her father's farm at seven. At a young age her mother was resistant of the masculine qualities that Cerovic's father was reinforcing, and before Cerovic's oath was taken, her mother continuously tried to change her dressing, and the chores she carried out. Cerović learned traditionally male skills, including being taught to shoot by her father.