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Migjeni

Died in 1938

Millosh Gjergj Nikolla, known as Migjeni, was born on 13 October 1911 in Shkodra, into an Orthodox family. He studied in Bar, Montenegro, then in Monastir, where he prepared for the Orthodox priesthood until 1932. A schoolteacher in Vraka, near Shkodra, then headmaster of the school in Pukë, in the mountains, from April 1936, he saw the poverty of the villages at close quarters. Suffering from tuberculosis, he left for treatment in Turin at the end of 1937, then at the Waldensian hospital of Torre Pellice, where he died on 26 August 1938, aged twenty-six.

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