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- Title
Lietuvos kotrynietės emigracijoje: penkių seserų likimai.
- Authors
KAMUNTAVIČIENĖ, Vaida
- Abstract
Five sisters of St. Catherine (Bronislava Marija Regina Boreišaitė, Michalina Marija Gabrielė Vaičaitytė, Petronėlė Marija Patricija Rumšaitė, Bronė Marija Bruna Greičiūtė, and Monika Marija Teresė Kielaitė), having left Lithuania after World War II due to the Soviet occupation, tried to establish themselves in the emigration, while the general leadership of the Sisters of St. Catherine in Grottaferrata attempted to maintain contact with the nuns secretly active in Soviet-occupied Lithuania. Research on this topic benefitted from access to the archives of the Lithuanian congregation in Kaunas and the congregation's general motherhouse in Grottaferrata. The research showed that the most difficult period, from 1944 to 1955, involved treks through displaced persons' camps in Western Europe and unsuccessful attempts at creating a new life in Toronto (Canada). In 1955 these nuns except one returned to Europe, lived in Italy and Germany, and served both the congregation and the Lithuanian Catholic diaspora community. Since 1970 it became possible in very limited ways to communicate with the sisters living in Lithuania by exchanging letters in which coded information about their situation in Lithuania was asked for and provided. The nuns living in the West also visited Soviet-occupied Lithuania as tourists and found opportunities to meet with their counterparts living in Lithuania, provided them with humanitarian assistance, and mediated between the Lithuanian sisters and the general St. Catherine motherhouse in Grottaferrata.
- Publication
Oikos: Lithuanian Migration & Diaspora Studies, 2018, Vol 26, Issue 2, p49
- ISSN
1822-5152
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7220/2351-6561.26.4