Could it really be? That his autobiography was found in the attic of the house in Šeduva, the last place Teofilius Matulionis lived? Everything seems so authentic and real, as if he were talking to us...

That is what crosses one's mind reading this book. There is no attempt to hide the pitfalls of this Beatified man in his pastoral life, the failures he experienced with the building and reconstruction of...

Could it really be? That his autobiography was found in the attic of the house in Šeduva, the last place Teofilius Matulionis lived? Everything seems so authentic and real, as if he were talking to us...

That is what crosses one's mind reading this book. There is no attempt to hide the pitfalls of this Beatified man in his pastoral life, the failures he experienced with the building and reconstruction of churches, his disappointment with not being able to organize and lead missions to Russia...

"Until then, I thought of martyrdom as being somewhere far away, something abstract". This is the reaction of Teofilius when he encounters the degrading actions of the Bolsheviks first hand.

All the impediments faced by Teofilius in his life were considered by him to be spiritual lessons to be learned; he poignantly describes some of the truly harsh ones with words that come to him from Scripture.

Paulius Subačius