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Adelė Dirsytė

Lithuanian teacher who died in a Soviet labour camp

Servant of GodFull write-upLithuania
Born
15 April 1909
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Died
26 September 1955
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Beatified
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not yet
Canonised
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not yet

Who they were

Laywoman and teacher, the sixth child of a Lithuanian farming family, deported to the Soviet camps where she wrote a prayer book for her fellow prisoners and died in 1955. The Hagiography Circle places her death at Khabarovsk; santiebeati.it places it at Taishet.

The miracles

No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.

Why that counted as sanctity

On 14 January 2000 the metropolitan of Kaunas asked the Congregation for the Causes of Saints that she be beatified as a martyr; the inquiry opened on 24 September 2000 and closed on 28 June 2023.

The cause

The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.

A miracle approved by the Holy See is needed for the next step. If you know the postulation’s own page, tell us and it will be added here.

Sources

Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.

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