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and after five years received amnesty. Upon her release, she returned to the sisters in Kaunas and resumed with their works. Between 1977 and 1990, Sister Mary
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took over the monastery and all of the sisters relocated to the property in Kaunas. Secretly the nuns continued performing the church's work, catechizing children and adults, performing sacraments for the sick, and writing religious literature. In 1949, Sister Mary
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and five thatched-roof huts, in which the sisters were able to live. She consecrated a temporary chapel and founded the
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monastery permanent, to take their vows and canonical approval of the congregation. On 11 April 1930 Sister Mary
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