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During the interwar period, the community of Lithuanian marijawits, also called followers of Mary, had several hundred members, two parishes, their own church, and for some time published a newspaper.
They separated from Catholics because of their focus on some religious issues. The most obvious external differences were that priests could have families with them, and women were also ordained to the priesthood.
However, the differences were not limited to this: the Mariites believed that the old institutional system of the Roman Catholic Church was broken, many priests did not care about the salvation of the soul, and that the system needed to be reformed, he spoke in against confession.
Such otherness meant that the life of the Marijavites in Lithuania, as in Poland, was not easy: they were persecuted, they suffered violence.
Now there are no followers of Mary in the land of Mary, her church is demolished, and only history enthusiasts know anything about them. It is probably the only religious community in Lithuania that existed between the wars, but now it has completely disappeared and forgotten.
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