Dom Jak Bushati, cleric, martyr of the Catholic Church, died in prison during torture. He was born in Shkodra, in 1890. He attended the Albanian Pontifical Seminary of Shkodra. He was ordained a priest in Shkodër on May 29, 1915. He was a parish priest in the province of Mirdita: Ndërfanë and Gëziq. From 1946, he was parish priest of Kallmet in Zadrima, where he stayed until the end. He was arrested in Kallmet and imprisoned in Lezhë in April 1949. His body was exhumed from the Catholic cemetery of Shkodra to be exhibited in the Cathedral Church on the occasion of the beatification. (In the photo: Jak Bushati)
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