{"id":6465,"date":"2026-02-10T00:21:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/10\/dom-mikel-belto\/---12202b33-a6f4-419c-b619-7e0e4078b668"},"modified":"2026-02-10T00:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T00:21:59","slug":"dom-mikel-belto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/10\/10\/dom-mikel-belto\/","title":{"rendered":"Dom Mikel Belto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dom Mikel Beltoja, martyr of the Catholic Church, was shot in Shkod\u00ebr. He was born in Beltoj\u00eb. At the height of the communist regime, since the Albanian Pontifical Seminary was closed, he was privately prepared to become a priest by Archbishop Ernest \u00c7oba, who ordained him a priest on December 8, 1961, together with Dom Marin Shkurti. He was the vicar of Daj\u00e7i on the Buna coast and then of Barbullushi (Shkod\u00ebr). He was arrested in Beltoja (Shkod\u00ebr) and imprisoned in Shkod\u00ebr on April 19, 1973. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison on August 15, 1973 and to death on September 4, 1973. <i>(In the photo: Mikel Beltoja)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> https:\/\/kishakatolikeshkoder.com\/dom-mikel-beltoja\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/kishakatolikeshkoder.com\/dom-mikel-beltoja\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dom Mikel Beltoja, a martyr of the Catholic Church, was executed in Shkod\u00ebr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ngjarje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dom Mikel Belto - 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