Nikollë Bojaxhiu
Nikollë Bojaxhiu | |
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Died | 1919 |
Occupation | Businessman |
Spouse | Dranafile (Drana) Bernai Bojaxhiu[1][2][3][4][5] |
Children | Age Lazar[1][2][3][4][5] Anjezë (Mother Teresa) |
Parent(s) | Lazër Bojaxhiu Çilja Bojaxhiu |
Nikollë Bojaxhiu (c. 1872 – 1919), also known as Nikola Bojaxhiu
An active Albanian rights activist, he was also the only
Life
Nikollë was born into a
On the day of the Albanian Declaration of Independence (November 28, 1912) he hosted a meeting that was attended by Bajram Curri and Hasan Prishtina among others.[12] After the region's incorporation into Serbia, Bojaxhiu joined various Albanian rights political organizations. He died in 1919, a few hours after he returned from a political meeting in Belgrade. Several biographers have attributed his death to poisoning by Serbian agents.[12] The location, purpose, and participants of the meeting remain unknown. His son Lazar considered the theory of poisoning to be a certainty, while his daughter Agnes described it as unconfirmed.[12]
His funeral process was attended by large numbers of people and representative of all the religious communities. As a sign of respect, that day all school children were given dedicatory handkerchiefs and jewellers' shops remained closed.[12] After his death, his partner appropriated the entirety of their companies' assets and left nothing to his widow and offspring.[11]
Mother Teresa had once said: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus.”
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Mother Teresa, Albanian Catholic Nun Founder of the missionaries of charity
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Mother Teresa, Albanian by birth
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the nun's mother was born in Prizren in Kosova, her family came originally from the Gjakova region, also in Kosova
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- ^ Pickles, K. (2022). Heroines in History: A Thousand Faces. Taylor & Francis. p. 99.