In V\u00ebrnakoll\u00eb, Kosovo, Anton Muzaj was born, a cleric and martyr of the Catholic Church. He completed his primary education in Prizren and his secondary education in Shkod\u00ebr. In 1938, he studied theology at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained a priest on March 19, 1944. In 1946, he returned to his homeland. He was arrested on May 2, 1947, and after enduring many tortures, he was released. He passed away in the spring of 1948 due to the tortures and tuberculosis he contracted in prison. His body was buried by the police in an unknown location. He was declared a martyr of the Church by Pope Francis in April 2016.<\/p>\n
Text: <\/strong>Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Victims of Communist Terror<\/i> – Vol. IV, \u201cWest Print,\u201d Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2015, page 438.<\/p>\n Photo:<\/strong> \u00a9 https:\/\/kishakatolikeshkoder.com\/dom-anton-muzaj\/<\/p>\n Graphic design:<\/strong> AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In V\u00ebrnakoll\u00eb, Kosovo, Anton Muzaj was born, a cleric and martyr of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6929","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ditelindje"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9627,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions\/9627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}