1. Alfons Tracki was an Albanian Catholic priest of German origin, who died as a martyr as a result of the religious persecution by the regime of Enver Hoxha in communist Albania.
11 Facts About Alfons Tracki
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Alfons Tracki requested to be admitted to the community at their provincial school in Vienna at age 14.
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Alfons Tracki was accepted, and after a novitiate of two years became a member on 16 August 1913, with the religious name Gebhard.
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Alfons Tracki was sent to Albania before World War I and taught at the Xaverian College in Shkoder.
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Alfons Tracki was ordained as a priest on 14 June 1925 by Lazer Mjeda, the archbishop there.
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Alfons Tracki exercised his ministry in Northern Albania, teaching in the schools and organizing sports for the youth.
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Alfons Tracki became chaplain at the St Stephen's Cathedral in Shkoder.
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Alfons Tracki founded a Catholic youth organisation, Viribus unitis.
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Alfons Tracki is remembered, in Zef Pllumi's memoirs Live to tell, as a good priest and crucial in the upbringing of other priests, such as would-be martyr Ejell Deda.
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Pjeter Arbnori wrote that Alfons Tracki joined a group of anti-communist Freischarler in the mountains.
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Alfons Tracki was in a prison in Shkoder from 13 February 1946, and was sentenced to death on 17 July for performing an illegal priestly act.