Albanian President Ilir Meta awarded on Tuesday morning Cardinal Ernest Simon Troshani with the highest title "Gjergj Kastrioti Skënderbeu" with the motivation: famous Albanian Cardinal, representative of an extraordinary generation of catholic clerics that have devoted their life to God, for unsparing love to people, high spiritual and moral values, freedom of consciousness and dignified stand in service and in respect of fatherland and nation. The ceremony was held in St. Antony Church in Laç after the Tuesday mass. President Meta praised Cardinal as a symbol to resistance and exceptional devotion to national values and ideals. The award ceremony coincides with the birthday of Albanian Cardinal.