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Fondazione Azione Cattolica Scuola di Santità
CATHOLIC ACTION SCHOOL OF SANCTITY FOUNDATION
FUNDACIÓN ACCIÓN CATÓLICA ESCUELA DE SANTIDAD
Pio XI
Saints
Blessed
Venerable
Servants of God
Roman phase
Servants of God
Diocesan phase
Significant figures

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND PROCEDURE OF THE CAUSE

Vincent Prennushi

September 4, 1885, Scutari, Albania – March 19, 1949, Durazzo, Albania

Born in Scutari in Albania during the Ottoman domination, on September 4, 1885, he was a student at the Franciscan college in his city.

He entered the Order of Friars Minor on 12 December 1904 with the name of Brother Vinçenc and was ordained a priest on 19 March 1908. He wrote numerous works of a literary, political and religious nature. After several important roles in the Franciscan Province of SS. Annunziata, he was consecrated bishop of Sappa and, on 26 June 1940, became titular archbishop of Durazzo.

As religious persecution in Albania grew, he tried to be a man of peace as he had been during the insurrections against the Turks in his youth. Brought before President Enver Hoxha, he refused his proposal to be the head of a national Albanian Church, separate from the Holy See.

Arrested and sentenced to twenty years in prison, he died in the prison of Durazzo following mistreatment and torture on 19 March 1949, for not having consented to the request of the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha to form a national Church, faithful to the communist regime and not to that of Rome.

Dicastery for the Causes of Saints

PROCEDURE OF THE CAUSE

Promulgation of the decree on martyrdom: April 26, 2016

Beatification date: November 05, 2016

Benedict XVI to Catholic Action - Rome, 4 May 2008

"These witnesses, who followed Jesus with all their strength,
who worked hard for the Church and for the Kingdom of God,
they represent your most authentic identity card.
Isn't it possible, still today, for you children, for you young people and adults,
make your life a testimony of communion with the Lord
that it becomes an authentic masterpiece of holiness?
Isn't that exactly the purpose of your Association?»

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