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Lazër Shantoja
Albanian Catholic priest
Feast: 5 March (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Lazër Shantoja (7 July 1891 – 5 March 1945) was an Albanian blessed, publicist, poet, satirist, and translator into Albanian from Goethe, Schiller and Leopardi, as well as his country's first Esperantist. He was one of the first Catholic priests, arrested by the communist government, and the first Albanian priest that was shot by a firing squad. He was accepted by the Catholic Church as a martyr in 2016, part of the Martyrs of Albania.
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The miracles
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Why that counted as sanctity
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- Wikidata Q20559852 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
- English Wikipedia — Lazër Shantoja (CC BY-SA)
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