He is known for his first work "Doktrina e Kërshtenë" (The Christian Doctrine), an Albanian translation of the catechism of Robert Bellarmine, which was published in Rome in 1618.

[2] Budi was born in Gur i Bardhë in the Mat region, and is a noted and respected figure in Albanian cultural history.

[3] He trained for the priesthood at the so-called Illyrian College of Loretto, south of Ancona in Italy, where many Albanians and Dalmatians of renown went to study.

At the age of 21, he was ordained as a Catholic priest and was sent immediately to Macedonia and Serbia under the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Antivar, where he served various parishes for an initial 12 years.

These connections proved fruitful in later years for his political endeavors to mount support for Albanian resistance to the Ottoman Empire.