(Telegraph) Sacred Mysteries: Christopher Howse on a family on the edge of the Muslim empire

In 1967, as part of the Communist campaign to make Albania an “atheist state”, the 400-year-old church at Laç was destroyed with explosives. Until then it had borne an inscription recording its consecration in 1557 by “Giovanni Bruni, Archbishop of … Continue reading (Telegraph) Sacred Mysteries: Christopher Howse on a family on the edge of the Muslim empire