{"id":6810,"date":"2026-04-26T00:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/10\/12\/gjon-pantalia\/---d578d428-1297-446d-9e2a-338f48887c3c"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:04:58","slug":"gjon-pantalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2026\/04\/26\/gjon-pantalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gjon Pantalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 26, 2016 <\/strong>, Gjon Pantalia was declared a martyr of the Catholic Church. He was born in Prizren. He studied in his hometown. He completed his cultural formation in a self-taught manner. He was a teacher in the primary school, director of the printing press, administrator of the magazines &#8220;Lajmtari&#8221; and &#8220;LEKA&#8221; and artistic director: choir director, band director and theater director. He was arrested in October 1946 in the assembly of Saint Francis in Shkod\u00ebr, where he was residing after the closure of all activities of the Albanian Pontifical Seminary. He was tortured a lot during the investigation. He passed away in 1947. In the years 2002-2010, the Diocesan Investigation of Shkodra took place, which collected the evidence for his martyrdom. After being declared a Martyr of the Church, on November 9, 2016, the President of the Republic awarded him the high decoration of the &#8220;Flag of the Nation&#8221;. <i>(In the photo: Gjon Pantalia)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror &#8211; Vol. VI <\/i>, &#8220;West Print&#8221;, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2017, page 196.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 http:\/\/www.archivioradiovaticana.va\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 26, 2016, Gjon Pantalia was declared a martyr of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","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 - 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