Stanislovas Pijus Rimkus
Lithuanian priest who died in Soviet captivity at Sol-Iletsk
Who they were
Ordained for Telsiai in 1936, he was a parish curate at Kraziai who preached and wrote against Soviet communism, and died at Sol-Iletsk in the Orenburg region of Russia in 1942. Santiebeati gives his birth as 2 January 1912, where the Hagiography Circle has 15 January.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The diocese of Siauliai opened the diocesan inquiry into his martyrdom on 21 May 2022, after the nihil obstat of 20 March 2020.
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.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.