{"id":7359,"date":"2023-11-06T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/06\/gege-lumaj\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:09","slug":"gege-lumaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/06\/gege-lumaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Geg\u00eb Lumaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Father Geg&euml; Lumaj, a Catholic clergyman, died in Plan Dukagjin. He was born in Plan of Dukagjin, in 1904. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Franciscan college of Shkodra, while his higher education in Rome. He was ordained on July 12, 1931. He served as a parish priest in Shosh, Mertur, Shkod&euml;r and Iballe in Puka (1943&ndash;1945). He was arrested twice and spent 20 years in prison. He passed away in 1990, in Plan, and was buried in the chapel of the village cemetery. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Geg&euml; Lumaj)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror &#8211; Vol. V <\/em>, &#8220;West Print&#8221;, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2016, page 114-115.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alb-spirit.com\/2019\/08\/05\/fritz-radovani-porosi-nga-frati-maleve\/\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">https:\/\/alb-spirit.com\/2019\/08\/05\/fritz-radovani-porosi-nga-frati-maleve\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Geg\u00eb Lumaj, a Catholic cleric, passed away in Plan, Dukagjin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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