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Priest Silvestras Gimžauskas, born in 1845 in Kirdeikiai (Linkmenai District), was a poet, educator, and promoter of Lithuanian culture. He followed the ideas of Bishop Motiejus Valančius and actively participated in the temperance and book smuggling movements. After graduating from Vilnius Priest Seminary in 1876, he briefly studied at the St. Petersburg Spiritual Academy but had to discontinue his studies due to illness. In 1890, he published the first patriotic Lithuanian appeal, urging Lithuanians not to give up their language and culture. Gimžauskas worked in various parishes, including Žiežmariai, Vidiškės, Kietaviškės, and Valkininkai, where he actively promoted Lithuanian culture. In Valkininkai, he organized the largest center for the distribution of Lithuanian press in the Vilnius Governorate, supporting book smugglers and secret schools.

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he organized the largest center for the distribution of Lithuanian press in the Vilnius Governorate, supporting book smugglers and secret schools. Gimžauskas died in 1897 in Warsaw (Poland), where he was receiving treatment, and was buried there, but the location of his grave is unknown. In 1936, a parish house named after him was built in Kirdeikiai, which housed a reading room and facilitated active cultural life. In 1988, a totem pole was erected at the site of the priest's birthplace (sculptor Stasys Karanauskas), and the house was relocated to the Lithuanian Museum of Folk Life in Rumšiškės. The street where the priest's homestead was located has been named S. Gimžauskas Street.

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