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The servant of God Fran Mirakaj

 

Father Pjetër                          Madher: Pulë (Baptism name Lule).

Born in Pukë-Iballë on the 1917.

Baptised on the ………… in……………….

Confirmed on the..................…

From Sapa diocese.

He studied for the first four years in Iballe – Pukë.

He was a farmer and merchant because he had a shop.

He was arrested in Pukë.

He was imprisoned in Shkodër on the 25 December.1945 and they sent him to Tirana. He was sentenced to death on the 22 February 1946. He was shot and killed in Tirana in September of 1946.

Other information: He was left on orphan when he was 8 years old because his father was shot and killed with one bullet. His relative (Kolë Bib Miraka) looked after him.

He married Prenda Alia and had three girls: Dilën, Filen and Agen.

Even though he was leaving his wife and his three daughters and his sister at home he did not ask them to spare his life, but he remained firm in his faith and his convictions.

He was a great benefactor towards the poor.

He contradicted the communist regime from the beginning because they were against faith. He participated illegally in the Association of the “Albanian union”, founded by the seminarian Mark Çuni.

When a friend of his age Ndue Lleshi sent him word saying “don’t get involved in politics, he said to him: “ I haven’t entangled my self in politics, but I am doing all I can only for the Faith and Christ”.

In the name of Christ who had changed his life, he fought and died while being inhumanely tortured.

 

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Fr. Fran Mirakaj

 

 
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