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The servant of
God Priest Gjon Gazulli
His father Hiluk his Mother Tone Gjini.
Born in Dajç of Zadrimes on the 26 March 1893
Baptised on the 30 March 1893
Confirmed on
the 07 March 1908
from the diocese of Sape.
Priestly ordination in Dajç Zadrimë on the 04 August 1919 from Bishop
Gjergj Koleci.
He studied in Dajç, in the pontifical seminary of Albania, in Rome,
France and in Vienna.
Parish priest in Gjader and Qelez Puke (1919-1921).
He was imprisoned in……….on the 26 December 1926.
He was sentence to imprisonment in Spaç of Mirdite the 02 January 1927.
He was killed by hanging in Shkodra on the 05 March 1927.
Other information: he was an exemplary priest, calm, gentle and very
loving towards all. He shared in the Albanian democratic revolution
against the government dictatorship, which was crushed with violence by
King Zog. It was organised for him to escape and go abroad, but he
preferred to stay in Albania.
He was accused of speaking against the immorality and injustice of King
Zog’s government.
They transferred him to Spaç, in the prison in Puke, and from there to
Shkodra prison where they tortured him; they tried him and sentenced him
to death by hanging.
In front of condemned prisoners and the soldiers, who did not want to go
away be made his confession in his mother tongue because Father Martin
Gjoka had said so: “ I want my last confession to be in my Mother
tongue, that all will hear me…”
So he did, and all the prisoners heard him.
He received pardon and Holy Communion.
His last words were: “ I am dying innocent, Glory be to Christ the King!
Long Live the Catholic Church, our Mother! Long Live the Pope our
Father! Long Live Albania and the True Albanian!”
He was fearless. The myslim soldiers who were accompanying him
recognised that he was innocent.
He was killed in the public Square “ Fusha e druve” (wood field) in
Shkodra, in front of a multitude of people.
His remains, which were buried in the Cemetery of Remaj in Shkodra, have
always been honoured.
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