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Ejëll Deda
BlessedResearched
Feast: 12 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
1917
Died
12 May 1948
verified
Beatified
5 November 2016
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Canonised
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not yet
Who they were
Ejëll Deda was a priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodër-Pult in Albania.
He died under torture or ill-treatment at Shkodër on 12 May 1948, one of the 38 martyrs of Albania's atheist regime.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who died under torture in Albania.
Sources
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Ejëll Deda
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 5 November 2016
- Wikidata Q13038525 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.