November 11, 1990, the day that restored Albanians' faith in God

2025-11-10 12:29:00, Opinione Besim Ndregjoni

November 11, 1990, the day that restored Albanians' faith in God

Don Simon Jubani celebrating the first mass in Shkodra, November 11, 1990

November for Albanians has two dates close to each other, one date, November 8, 1941, brought, and is still bringing, misfortune and trauma to Albania, the creation of the communist party, which became a tool of our centuries-old hostility to the Serbs, which exterminated a people, which used bestial methods, forcibly forbade the people from believing in God, which declared Albania the world's atheist state, and the date November 11, 1990, which came to never return.

This is the most beautiful date in life. Albania without this date was heading towards extinction.

The former political prisoner of two decades, the Shkodra native who did not shy away from the tortures of the State Security, who spent his youth suffering in Burrel and Spaç, who did not submit to the anti-God dictatorship of Enver Hoxha, who will make an era by killing the fear of Albanians and restoring their faith in God!

Shkodra woke up on November 11, 1990 under the weight of a torrential rain, in the month of Purgatory, there was no shortage of people on the first Sunday in the graves of Rrëmaj. And most of them were old graves because the party had stopped burial there in 1975. The purpose of the date of November 8 was to disappear this history so that it would go towards destruction as a cemetery. The people of Shkodra ran with raincoats, the table on which you eat bread, towards the house of Dom Simon Jubani, Shkodra that day did not know Catholics or Muslims, everyone was directed around the brave Priest, and this giant of faith in God, and although the rain continued to fall, they gathered around Simon Jubani who was celebrating the first Mass in the ancient Shkodra of Rozafa after 50 years.

There are countless people heading towards the burning, roofless chapel, Don Simoni is really there!

Don Simoni placed the hidden cross under the table along with a few things preserved over the years, never thinking, while suffering in the dungeons of Burrel, that he would reach this blessed day.

His speech was a scream, today a new era begins for all Albanians! The word spreads throughout Shkodra, the messiah has come. The word of Saint Thomas is not forgotten, I saw Don Simon with my own eyes saying mass without laying a hand on his wounds that the communists have opened in his body, he did not believe.

"This date is a miracle!"

This date would force dictator Ramiz Alia to allow political pluralism a month later!
Without the prisoners and the politically persecuted, Albania would not have political pluralism, which unfortunately after three decades is enjoyed by those who fought God and applauded and took pride in atheist Albania!

This date should be a national day of faith in God, on this date the church bells should be heard, the call to prayer of the hoxhals should be heard, the Albanian state should bow with reverence before the era that Don Simon Jubani created, the one who turned suffering into faith and not into revenge.

The Albanian state continues the path of November 8th and not November 11th. Today the Albanian state is destroying the family with parental laws 1, 2! Today the Parliament should have held a session to honor the co-sufferers of Simon Juban, and not to honor the day that brought the invasion of Albania and banned belief in God!

The blood of the Martyrs of religion and homeland is the seed that today has sons, Catholics and
Muslims, killed together in the Battle of Kirit, who today call out:
Unite, Albanian brothers like us who died for freedom and true democracy.

Democracy is not built on November 8th. Gentlemen in power, politicians,
academics, intellectuals, Democracy is built on November 11th, which restores our faith in God!

Eternal glory to Don Simon Juban of Shkodra, martyr, glory to the Albanian prisoners and political persecuted who, amidst bullets, defended their faith in God, defended the noble values ??of the Albanian family that agreed to give their lives and not submit to barbarians who do not know God.

Albanians inspired by November 11, 1990 will defend the family, the nation, and democracy with faith in the great GOD!