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Lithuanian nun and dissident.
Nijolė Sadūnaitė
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Lithuanian nun and dissident.
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Cancer
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22 July 1938, Kaunas, Kaunas City Municipality, Kaunas County, Russian Empire
Age
85 years
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Nijolė Sadūnaitė (born 22 July 1938 in Kaunas) is a clandestine Lithuanian Catholic nun of the Soviet period who worked with the Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania. In 1975 she faced three years of imprisonment for her efforts. She spent time imprisoned in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic and then in Boguchany. She reportedly faced a variety of abuses in this period, including torture. She wrote A Radiance in the Gulag about her experiences.
In 2018, Sadūnaitė received the 'Lithuanian Freedom Award". She is the first female in history to receive the award.
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1938 births
1938 births
20th-century Christian nuns
20th-century Christian nuns
20th-century Lithuanian women writers
20th-century Lithuanian women writers
21st-century Christian nuns
21st-century Christian nuns
Lithuanian Roman Catholics
Lithuanian Roman Catholics
Lithuanian anti-communists
Lithuanian anti-communists
People from Kaunas
People from Kaunas
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Nijolė Sadūnaitė