Background
Budi was born in Gur i Bardhë in the Mat region, and is a noted and respected figure in Albanian cultural history.
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Pjeter Budi
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Career
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 lieutenant He trained for the priesthood at the so-called Illyrian College of Loretto, south of Ancona in Italy, where many Albanians and Dalmatians of renown were to study. at the age of 21, he was ordained as a Catholic priest and was sent immediately to Macedonia and Kosovo, then part of the eccesiastical province of Serbia under the jurisdiction of the archbishop of Antivar, where he served various parishes for an initial 12 years. in 1647, as chaplan of Prokupolje. In Kosovo, Budi came in to contact with Franciscan Catholics from 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. His ecclesiastical position was in many way only a cover for his political aspirations.
On 20 July 1621, he was made bishop of Sapa and Sarda (ie of the Zadrima region of northern Albania), and returned to Albania the following year. In December 1622, some time before Christmas he drowned while crossing the Drin River.
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
Pjeter Budi Street in Tirana has been named in his honour.
