Ejëll Deda
Feast: 12 May (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
Ejëll Deda was a priest of the Archdiocese of Shkodër-Pult in Albania.
He died under torture or ill-treatment at Shkodër on 12 May 1948, one of the 38 martyrs of Albania's atheist regime.
The miracles
As a martyr he was raised to the altars without a miracle.
Why that counted as sanctity
A priest who died under torture in Albania.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - biography: Ejëll Deda
- Dicastery for the Causes of Saints - beatification of 5 November 2016
- Wikidata Q13038525 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.