Lek Sirdani
Feast: 29 July (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Who they were
The Martyrs of Albania were a collective group of 38 individuals killed during the Communist regime in Albania from 1945 until 1974 (all but five between 1945 and 1950). The government of Albania enforced state atheism. All were born at various times between 1874 and 1935; the group included Albanians and Italians as well as one German. Each of these individuals, apart from four, were part of the religious life as either priests or religious and served as either missionaries or educators with a great deal spending their educational formation in Italian and Austrian cities.
Summary of the Wikipedia article Martyrs of Albania, which covers Lek Sirdani with others (CC BY-SA 4.0), until this page is written up in full.
The miracles
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
Why that counted as sanctity
Limited information is available on this saint so far.
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.
- Santi e Beati — Beato Alessandro Sirdani Sacerdote e martire — Listed as "Beato Alessandro Sirdani Sacerdote e martire" — 26 dicembre Boga, Albania, 1892 – Koplik, Scutari, 26 dicembre 1948 Aleksander Sirdani, nato a Boga nel nord dell’Albania, fu ordinato sacerdote nel 1916 ed eser
- Wikidata Q26898383 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Not yet written up in full. The Catholic source above names this person; the name, dates and step come from Wikidata and are not yet checked against Church records.