Šunskų Parapijos Kanoninės Vizitacijos 1911–1941 Metais
Šunskai Parish Canonical Visitations in 1911–1941

Summary/Abstract: Šunskai parish archives were taken away by the Soviet government and only incidental bishops’ visit reports survived in the parish archives. However, the 1914s inventory survived in Poland the Lomza diocese archives stored along former Seinai diocesan documents, dating back to the Bishop Antanas Karosas exile from Sejny. Not every visitation report fully reflects and discusses parish status. Some reports are missing the Parish inventory. Sometimes instead a visit report there is found only the bishop’s brief statement of the visit to the parish and the giving of the sacrament of confirmation. The Šunskai parish visitations revealed the relatively stable material and spiritual condition of the parish. A regular visit to the parish by the bishop or by his assistant often had a large number receiving the sacrament of Confirmation. Sometimes the bishop’s visitation, if not solemn, was confined only to the granting of this sacrament. It seems that quite a modest visitation took place in 1941, when World War II started. The bishops’ visit report provided us with the parish image as it was.

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