Laç or also Laçi is a city in northwestern Albania. It is the administrative center of the Kurbin District, which is part of Lezhë County. Known as "Kisha e Laçit" or "Kisha e Shën Anoit" in Albanian, this church is dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua. Fernando Martins de Bulhões, venerated as Anthony of Padua or Anthony of Lisbon, (1190 or 1195 – 13 June 1231) is a Catholic saint who was born in Lisbon, Portugal to a wealthy family and who died in Padua, Italy. This church is the most important place of pilgrimage for hundreds of thousand peoples that visit this holy place every year on 13th June and on Saturdays, and year around. It is the most important pilgrimage place in Albania, and is believed to has a much older history as a Holy Place of Pelasgian Illyrian Gods at the cave where is located, and is frequented for millenniums