Pjetër Budi
Pjetër Budi | |
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| Vicar general of the Catholic Church of Serbia Mat, Ottoman Empire | |
| Died | December 1622 (aged 55–56) |
| Nationality | Albanian |
Pjetër Budi (1566 – December 1622), was an Albanian Catholic bishop and a prominent
Vicar General of the Catholic Church in Serbia, a position he held for seventeen years. Later he was appointed bishop of Diocese of Sapë and Sarda.[2]
Life
Budi was born in
Mat region, and is a noted and respected figure in Albanian cultural history. In addition to his political and religious activities, he published four books in Albanian, a rarity at the time, and was the first Albanian writer to publish a substantial amount of poetry in Albanian, some 3,300 lines of it.[3]
He trained for the priesthood at the so-called
Bosnia. These connections proved fruitful in later years for his political endeavors to mount support for Albanian resistance to the Ottoman Empire
.
In 1599, Budi was appointed vicar-general (vicario generale) of Serbia, a post held for 17 years. As a representative of the Catholic Church in the Turkish-occupied Balkans, he lived and worked in what was no doubt a tense of political atmosphere. His ecclesiastical position was in many way only a cover for his political aspirations.
In 1616, he traveled to co-consecrators.[5]
In December 1622, some time before Christmas he drowned while crossing the
Drin River.[4]
Among Budi's other publications are:
- the Rituale Romanum or Rituali Roman (Roman Ritual), a 319-page collection of Latin prayers and sacraments with comments in Albanian
- a short work entitled Cusc zzote mesce keto cafsce i duhete me scerbyem (Whoever says Mass must serve this thing), a 16-page explanation of mass, and
- the Speculum Confessionis or Pasëqyra e t'rrëfyemit (The Mirror of Confession), a 401-page translation or, better, adaptation of the Specchio di Confessione of Emerio de Bonis, described by Budi as "some spiritual discourse most useful for those who understand no other language than their Albanian mother tongue."
Pjeter Budi Street
in Tirana has been named in his honour.
See also
References
- ^ "Dottrina Christiana – Pjeter Budi". bibliotekashkoder.com. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
- ISBN 3-447-04783-6.
- ^ Robert, Elsie. "Pjetër BUDI". Archived from the original on 9 June 2010. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8108-7483-1.
- ^ Cheney, David M. "Bishop Pietro Budi". Catholic-Hierarchy.org.
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