• Deceptive tranquility during which, however,
the campaign against religious youth is intensified; instances of heroic resistance increase

  • Petition upon petition by 1,709 believers of Ceikiniai to Leonid Brezhnev, to the government of the LSSR, to the Lithuanian commissioner of the Council for Religious Affairs, and to the rayon administration with facts upon facts of discrimination against the faithful

  • Man is sent to a psychiatric hospital for constructing a cross

  • "Shortage" of paper for the works of Bishop Valančius

  • Priest is released from prison camp (Father Bubnys)

  • Burglarization of churches increases

  • Priest is transferred and demoted (Father Pesliakas)

  • Woman struggles against the destruction of her parents' cemetery monument with the words "Save us, O Lord!"

  • Pastors are forbidden to participate in funeral processions (Father Balaišis and Father Raščius)

  • Priest is warned to find work other than priestly duties (Father Zdebskis)

  • Pastor is warned not to involve youth in religious rites (Father Matulaitis)

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