{"id":7384,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/klemnet-miraj\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","slug":"klemnet-miraj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/klemnet-miraj\/","title":{"rendered":"Klemnet Miraj"},"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;\">Klemnet Miraj, Catholic priest, director of the Archaeological Museum, died in Burrel prison as a result of torture . He was born in Selce, Kelmendi, in 1882. He studied at the Franciscan College of Kallmet. He was ordained a priest on September 1, 1907. In 1914, he began studying theology and philosophy at the Theological Faculty of the University of Graz. After finishing his studies he returned to his homeland and in 1920 he was appointed parish priest in Pej&euml;. In 1921, he was arrested by the Serbs and brutally tortured. Four years later, in 1925, he was expelled from the borders of Yugoslavia. He settled in Shkod&euml;r. During all this time, he was also the director of the Archaeological Museum. He served in Rubik and, for many years, in La&ccedil; of Kurbin. During the war years, he was the vicar of Biza of Ishmi. He is one of the signatories of the new statute of the Albanian Catholic Church (1951). He was arrested in 1955, and sentenced to 20 years in prison. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Klemnet Miraj)<\/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 353.<\/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:\/\/merbraha.com\/at-klement-miraj-o-f-m\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/merbraha.com\/at-klement-miraj-o-f-m\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/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>In the Burrel prison, as a result of torture, Father Klemnet Miraj, a Catholic cleric and director of the Archaeological Museum, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7384","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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