Valdemaras Cukuras. chaplain of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Putnam. CT. who offered the opening prayer. Father Cukuras was born in Bauska. Latvia on April 11. 1915. and after graduating from the Kaunas Theological Seminary in Lithuania. worked as the school chaplain from 1938 to 1944. After fleeing from the Russian occupation of Lithuania. he did pastoral work among the Lithuanian refugees in Thuringia. Germany. in 1944 and 1945. During the next 5 years he continued his studies in Rome. obtaining a doctorate in theology from Gregorian University and a doctorate in philosophy from the Angelicum University.
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