Papa Francisco avança com padres albaneses martirizados ao longo do caminho para a santidade

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O padre Luigi Paliq (esquerda) e o padre Gjon Gazulli foram declarados mártires pelo Papa Francisco em 20 de junho de 2024. / Crédito: Captura de ecrã a partir de aciprensa.com de foto cortesia de A Ordem dos Frades Menores, Conferência Episcopal da Albânia

Pope Francis on Thursday advanced the cause for sainthood for two martyred Catholic priests who were killed “in hatred of the faith” in Albania in the first decades of the 20th century.

The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints made the announcement of the priests’ martyrdom and subsequent beatification Num comunicado de imprensa na quinta-feira. When the pope declares that a person was martyred for the faith, that individual is beatified, and the title “Blessed” is granted.

Father Luigj Paliq was murdered in Albania in 1913, and Father Gjon Gazulli was killed in 1927. In 2016, Pope Francis beatified 38 Albanian clerics and lay Catholics who were martyred under the country’s communist regime between 1945 and 1974.

Paliq, um sacerdote da Ordem dos Frades Menores em Cortemaggiore, foi o reitor do Convento Franciscano de Gjakova. Ele defendeu as populações locais, incluindo os muçulmanos, das perseguições das forças montenegrinas que tomaram o controle da região após a Primeira Guerra Balcânica. 

He was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the Montenegrins on March 7, 1913. Before his death, he “confirmed his full willingness to die for Christ and for the Church,” with his last words to that effect “heard and reported by those who had witnessed his shooting.”

Gazulli nasceu em Dajc, Albânia, em 1893. Entrou no Pontifício Seminário de Skorka aos 12 anos, sendo ordenado sacerdote em 1919 depois de superar vários problemas de saúde. 

Criou uma escola paroquial na região de Koman, na Albânia; Eventualmente, ele atraiu a ira das autoridades locais devido à influência religiosa que exercia sobre os sacerdotes e outros habitantes locais.

Arrested by the government, he was “subjected to a farce trial” and convicted on false charges. He was hanged in the square in Skorko on March 5, 1927. 

The priest died “by forgiving his killers and professing his loyalty to Christ and the Church,” the dicastery said. 

The dicastery on Thursday also put several other faithful on the path to being declared saints, including recognizing the heroic virtues of Servant of God Isaiah Columbro, an Italian priest who during his life was “much sought after for his prayers and blessings.” 

Columbro was “above all esteemed and well-liked for the indefatigable exercise of the sacrament of penance.” He died in 2004.

O Vaticano também reconheceu as virtudes heroicas da Serva de Deus Vicenta Guilarte Alonso, membro das Filhas de Jesus espanholas que se juntaram à ordem em 1909 e posteriormente viajaram para a cidade brasileira de Pirenopolis para fundar uma comunidade lá. 

She was later transferred to the municipality of Leopoldina, where she was made doorman and sacristan. Though she had earlier been deputy superior, she “humbly accepted this situation, which astonished many sisters, without protesting and expressing regret,” the dicastery said. 

She served in that role until her death in 1960. 

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