Dom Simon Jubani

He was ordained in 1958 and then arrested in 1963 while serving at the Abbey of Mirëdita, in a nearby province, for practicing the Catholic religion.

Dom Simon wrote a memoir of his time in prison, titled "Burgjet e mia".

On 11 November 1990, Jubani celebrated the first public mass since the fall of Hoxha's regime, defying the law.

He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of San Francisco in 1991, honored as a "Protagonist of a new era in Albania.

"[2] Jubani died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 12 July 2011 at the Regional Hospital in Shkodër.