honorific_prefix death_date death_place birth_place other_names nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
dom 1866 kallmet , lezhë , ottoman empire blinisht , zadrima , ottoman empire dom pjeter xarishi ottoman 1806 establishing in northern albania a tradition of the 19th century catholic literature pjetër zarishi
 pjetër zarishi catholic priest and poet
pjetër zarishi

pjetër zarishi or dom pjeter xarishi -lrb- 1806 blinisht , zadrima -- 1866 kallmet , lezhë -rrb- was an albanian mirditë catholic priest and poet who established a tradition of the 19th century catholic literature in northern albania .
he is also noted for his literary contribution to the albanian national awakening .
his poems were primarily religious and in less extent secular .
in 1837 he was educated at the training college of the propaganda fide .
he was first appointed as a secretary of the italian bishop of the roman catholic diocese of sapë in nënshat , in the shkoder archdiocese who was transferred to orosh and appointed as abbot of the remote abbey of orosh after one disagreement with bishop of sapa .
zarishi and dotmaze from shkoder were assistants of karlo kransnik who was in catholic pries for the mirdite tribe .
in orosh zarishi initially maintained a close cooperation with local mirdite leaders and particularly with dod bib pasha .
when ilija garašanin , through krasnik , approached to dod bib to propose mirdite to join anti-ottoman revolt , dod bibe accepted to ally with serbia in exchange for the autonomy of his tribe and freedom to keep their catholic faith within serbian state .
on the other hand , zarishi and dotmaze were opposed to participation of mirdite tribe in the uprising against ottomans because they believed it would not be effective .
because of the conflict with some mirdita chieftains he was forced to leave orosh and to settle in kallmet where he died in 1866 .
his pupil petar draguša later wrote that zarishi was so good orator that more than once listeners of his speeches broke crying .
