{"id":8413,"date":"2026-07-12T00:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/dom-simon-jubani\/---f2daee24-f4d8-454d-93e8-fae70bffbcdd"},"modified":"2026-07-12T00:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T00:05:18","slug":"dom-simon-jubani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/dom-simon-jubani\/","title":{"rendered":"Dom Simon Jubani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dom Simon Jubani, a Catholic priest, died in the hospital of the city of Shkodra. He was born in Shkod\u00ebr in 1927. At the age of 16, he started the Apostolic School of the Jesuits. After the closing of the Catholic schools, in March 1946 he went to the State High School. In 1957-1958, he took the orders of the priest and was sent to Mirdita as a parish priest, where he was arrested. He served 26 years in prison. He was released on April 13, 1989. On November 4, 1990, he celebrated the first public mass, in the burnt chapel of the Rr\u00ebmaj cemetery, in the presence of 200-300 believers. On the 11th of the same month, always in the chapel of Rr\u00ebmaj, he celebrated the second public mass, this time with a well-prepared, programmatic speech that broke the 23-year silence. In 1991, the University of San Francisco in California awarded him the degree &#8220;Doctor Honoris Causa&#8221; in humanities. In July 1996, the state of Michigan honored him with a special degree. <i>(In the photo: Simon Jubani during the mass.)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Encyclopedic dictionary of victims of communist terror &#8211; Vol. IV <\/i>, &#8220;West Print&#8221;, Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana, 2015, page 79.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 Institute for the Study of Crimes and Consequences of Communism, Tirana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dom Simon Jubani, a Catholic priest, died in the hospital of the city of Shkodra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8413","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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