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38 MARTYRS FOR FAITH AND HOMELAND

The beatification ceremony for the clerics of the Catholic Church killed by the communist regime takes place today in Shkodër ► SPECIAL ON PAGES 2,3,4,5,6,7

Shkodër

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PORTRAIT OF ONE OF THE 38 BLESSED

BLESSED FATHER GJON SHLLAKU, SOCIOLOGIST PHILOSOPHER Father Zef Pllumi’s memories of the Franciscan father who was executed by the communist regime on 4 March 1946, as the “founder of Democracy”... BY FATHER ZEF PLLUMI

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Father Mati Prennushi:

“Long live Christ the King! Long live the Pope! We are dying at our posts, innocent! Long live the Franciscan Province! Long live Albania! We forgive the court and those who will fire at our innocent bodies!”

Atë Mati Prennushi Shqipnia

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Dom Alfons Tracki:

“...I do not regret at all that I am dying together with my brothers, because, as far as I have been able, I too have contributed with you for the good of your people and of the faith of Christ.”

Dom Alfons Tracki

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Dom Jozef Marksen

“I am pleased that I am dying, because Albanians will always understand me as a priest of the faith of Christ!”

Dom Jozef Marksen

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Maria Tuci:

“All possible forms of torture were inflicted on my body’, according to a letter of mine that they failed to get out of prison; among other things, they put me in a sack, naked, together with a cat!”

Maria Tuci

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