July 111 In 1944, Brother ANTHONY ERDMANS (Erd-mahns), was killed in the course of military actions in Latvia at the age of 84. He was a religious for 20 years and worked as a pharmacist and physician’s assistant. He is buried in Viļāni. In 1994, Father JOSEPH PODERIS (Po-dare-is), a member of the Lithuanian Province, died at the age of 70 in Kaunas, Lithuania. He was a priest for 33 years and a religious for 7. Ordained a priest secretly in 1956 by a Greek-Catholic Bishop because of the Communist regime, he carried out in secret his pastoral activities in various parishes. Being a friend and collaborator of Fr. Raciunas (Ra-choo-nas), he joined the Marians and made his first vows at the age of 63. Four years later, when the Marians regained possession of the house in Kaunas, he became its Superior and the Rector of St. Gertrude Church. He worked with great zeal, including with the youth, even though his heart condition progressively worsened. He is interred in St. Gertrude Church in Kaunas. In 2010, Father CASIMIR VALEIKIS (Va-lay-kis) died in Marijampolė at the age of 92. He was a religious for 71 years and a priest for 50. He entered the seminary in Kaunas in 1945, but had to leave in 1948 on account of Soviet measures to decrease the number of seminarians. While studying theology by correspondence, he worked at various churches in Vilnius as a Sacristan and organist. He had to take up various jobs and learned the skills of a stenographer, farmer, and driver. As a priest, he served in various Lithuanian parishes. He is buried in Marijampolė. In 2012, Father THADDEUS WYSZOMIERSKI (Vih-sho-mierski) died in a car accident near Jadów (Ya-doov), Poland. He was 62 years old, a religious for almost 40 years and a priest for 36. After his ordination, he served pastorally in Poland and then, in 1984, he went to Rwanda as a member of the first Marian missionary team sent there. Later, he worked in England as the Vocation Director and assistant at the Marian parish in Ealing. He was also a Provincial Councilor, local Superior in Fawley Court, and promoter of the Marian Missions in Great Britain. In 2009, the President of Poland awarded him the Golden Cross of Merit for his work on behalf of the Polish emigrants in the United Kingdom. He is buried in Góra Kalwaria.
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