Papa Kristo Negovani, born Kristo Harallambi and also known as Kristo Negovani, was an Albanian national figure, priest, poet, teacher, writer and publisher who was killed by Greek nationalists in 1905 for using Albanian during liturgy.
Biography
Born as Kristo Harallambi in the village of Negovani, Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now in Florina municipality, modern Greece), he became known in his lifetime as Kristo Negovani. His father was a merchant based in Athens, Greece and a young Negovani through a Greek scholarship pursued his secondary schooling in the Greek capital. He performed mass in the Albanian language and taught children in their mother tongue. Negovani opposed Greek propaganda and was against marriages with "foreign elements". conducted the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Albanian Tosk dialect. ==Works==
Works
Negovani is the author of prose and poetry, including school texts, translations and fables. Among his publications are • The History of the Old Testament, (), Bucharest 1889; • The Destruction of Hormova, (), Sofia 1904; • Little Dhonat Argjendi (), Costanza 1904; • Works of the Holy Apostles (), Sofia 1906 • History of Plikati (), Thessaloniki 1909. ==References==