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The Servant of God priest
Ejëll Deda
Father: Gjon Ded Pjetri.
Mother: Drane Rrok Koja.
Born in Shkodër on the 22
February 1917.
Baptised on the 23 February
1917 Confirmed on the 08 June 1924
He was ordained a priest in
Shkodër in the Jesuit Church on the 24 February 1943. In the beginning
he studied with the Franciscans, with whom he was a Novice and a student
for two years, after this he went to become a diocesan priest in the
Pontifical Seminary of Albania.
Parish priest of Rranxa of
Bushat, Shkodër.
He was imprisoned in Shkodër
on the 10 November 1947 (according to the verbal statement on the 12
November 1947).
He was sentenced to 10 years
in prison, some say he was sentenced before the trial.
He died because of torture,
according to some information he died from torture in the hospital where
he was on the 12 May 1948.
Other information: When the
communists took over he developed many activities.
He was untiring and very
successful in preaching so that he made his parish very lively.
His parishioners advised him
to speak less to avoid being arrested because then the parish wouldn’t
have e priest , but he answered “I am praying to God that he will unite
me with my priestly friends who were imprisoned or who have already
given, their lives”. While for the parish he said “God will take care of
the parish”.
According to the communist
state he committed three big crimes…. He was against communism, he was a
Catholic priest, and he was an intellectual.
He was brutally tortured and
as it was his wish he died in prison with his friends. In the beginning
they gave his body to his brother, Nush Dedës, who took his brothers
body to his house, but later the police came and took his body and one
knows where they put him.
When one of his parishioners
heard of his death he said. “He came to us like an angel and like an
angel he went”.
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