The servant of God priest Anton Zogaj

Father: Lekë                  Mother: Marije.

Born in Kthellë – Mirditë in 26 July 1908.

Priestly Ordination in ………… on the 26 April 1932.

He studied in Trenning [?](Austria). He was Parish priest of the Cathedral of that time St. Lucy in Durrës. He was arrested in the Parish house. He was imprisoned in Durrës at the back of the present museum of the fallen for the fatherland. (According to the verbal statement on the 18 May 1947).

He was shot and killed in the Roman port in Durrës, at a place called Spitalla.

(According the verbal statement on the 09 March 1948), while some of the faithful say that it was the night of 31 December 1946 until 01 January 1947.

Other information: He was asked to reveal the seal of confession, but even though he was tortured inhumanely, he did not reveal it. When he was going to be shot he did not  want to bind his eyes and did not agree to turn his back on them. He was shot on the beach by the sea and they covered him with a bit of sand.

Some dogs discovered his body while they were scratching on the sand.

It was said that the inhabitants of that area buried his body on a hill but in has not been found.

(The association of Durrës made up of three communities of believers, while commemorating his martyrdom, have remembered him, giving him the title: “Torch of democracy”).

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