Çiprian Nika
Çiprian Nika, OFM (Shkodër, 19 July 1900 – 11 March 1948) was an Albanian Catholic priest, Franciscan, teacher, and publicist.
The diocesan process for his beatification was announced on November 10, 2002, by Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, then Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, during the Eucharist at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, Shkodër. Nika was beatified on 5 November 2016, in the square in front of the cathedral.
In the Martyrology
- March 11 Blesseds Frano Gjini, Ciprian (Dedë Nikaj) and Mati (Pal Prennushi), Martyrs of Albania