Lietuvos piliečio kelias : mes liudijame Kristų
ENClergy genocide, the subject of this book, is not very well known to the general public. Beginning in 2001, a list of forty-eight priests of the Lithuanian Diocese of Telšiai, who were either murdered or suffered in Soviet concentration camps, was published in The Chronicles of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. This list was updated in Bronius Kviklys publication Lithuanian Churches: The Diocese of Telšiai. Telšiai Bishop Antanas Vaičius and Monsignor Tadas Poška provided several new names of priests, thus expanding the list of victims to 70 persons. This list of persecuted priests of the Telšiai Diocese was further expanded through research in the Lithuanian Special Archives by Gintaras Šidlauskas of the Genocide and Resistance Research Centre of Lithuania. Thus, The Directory of Priests of the Diocese of Telšiai Persecuted and Murdered by the USSR Occupation Government contained in this book includes 87 names from reliable sources, while the directory provides names of an additional 14 priests and 8 seminarians of the Telšiai Theological Seminary who were either related to Telšiai Diocese or experienced some sort of persecution. The victims condemned by Soviet authorities significantly expand the number of priests who were exiled to Siberia during the earlier Tsarist period. [...].
