NGA GONXHE BOJAXHIU DERI TE NËNË TEREZA FROM GONXHE BOJAXHIU TO MOTHER THERESA
I. REFLECTIONS ON THE FIRST BOOK – “ALBANIAN CATHOLIC FAMILIES IN SKOPJE” Dr. Nora Maliqi Zylali The Institute of Spiritual and Cultural Heritage of the Albanians in Skopje, with the expansion and deepening of it’s scientific research, came to be formed as an address where many ideas and projects of vital importance for the Albanian existence in these lands will find their way. Consequently, ISCHA last year dealt with a slightly forgotten dimension of this being, by highlighting the multifaceted cultural, religious, commercial and human dimensions of the noble Albanian Catholic families from Skopje. The best approach to this issue was made through the book "Albanian Catholic Families in Skopje", by the authors Skender Asani and Albert Ramaj, based on various documents, photographs and facsimiles that prove the vitality of a large family sage, which from her breast had raised the luminaries of Albanian culture, humanism, knowledge, including the Bojaxhiu Family, from where came the famous Gonxhe Bojaxhiu-Mother Teresa, the daughter of the first Albanian patriot and culturologist, of the beginning of the XX century in these areas. In the public mentality that had been imposed for decades, had dominated the thesis that Albanians are only Muslims by religion, and the same thesis was used by Slavic propaganda for its own purposes, which in the last instance had the creation of civilized areas contrary to the factual situation on the ground. And it was precisely the Albanian Catholic families in Skopje that broke the fallacy of this civilizing discourse, and this book is the most faithful reflection of a chronology not only factual but also identity that was closely related to the distinctive signs of an ethnicity. The book "Albanian Catholic Families in Skopje", in addition to the echo it had throughout the Albanian territories, in the future will serve as a starting point from where we will continue our serious efforts as ISCHA, to bring to
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