The Saulė Cemetery (; ) is a cemetery in

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district of

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. It is the old parish cemetery of the St. Peter and St. Paul Church and is the place of rest of many noble Poles and Lithuanians.

History

It is believed that the first burials took place during the 1710 plague. The Chapel of

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was built in 1811, but the first known mention of the cemetery is only from 1828. It was the parish cemetery of the nearby St. Peter and St. Paul Church until 1945. At that time, Soviet authorities renamed the cemetery after the nearby Saulė Street. At the same time, the cemetery was enlarged by . The cemetery has three family chapels-mausoleums of Zawiszas, Ogiński, and Meysztowicz families.

Notable burials

Famous people buried here include: *

Danielius Alseika Danielius Alseika (; 1881–1936) was a Lithuanian physician and activist. He was the father of the archaeologist Marija Gimbutas. Born to a family of Lithuanian peasants, Alseika became actively involved in Lithuanian cultural life as a high ...

(1881–1936), Lithuanian physician and activist *

Jonas Kazlauskas Jonas Kazlauskas (born 21 November 1954) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach and former player. He was most recently the head coach of the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Playing career Kazlausk ...

(1930–1970), Lithuanian linguist *

Petras Kraujalis Petras Kraujalis (8 July 1882 – 14 August 1933) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest, editor, and publicist who was active in Vilnius Region. Biography Petras Kraujelis studied at Jelgava Gymnasium, Mitau Gymnasium, but was expelled for ...

(1882–1933), Lithuanian activist *

Meilė Lukšienė Meilutė Julija Lukšienė Matjošaitytė (20 August 1913 – 16 October 2009) was a Lithuanian university professor, cultural historian, and activist. Educated at Vytautas Magnus University, Lukšienė became a professor of literature in 1944. ...

(1913–2009), Lithuanian historian * Teodoras Valaitis (1934–1974), sculptor-modernist * Józef Zawadzki (1781–1838), the editor of the first poems of

Adam Mickiewicz Adam Bernard Mickiewicz (24 December 179826 November 1855) was a Polish poet, dramatist, essayist, publicist, translator and political activist. He is regarded as national poet in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. He also largely influenced Ukra ...

Wincenta Zawadzka (; also known as , ''née'' ; ca. 1824 – 1894) was the author of a popular Polish-language cookbook, ' (''The Lithuanian Cook''). Her book was first published in Vilnius Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Ci ...

(1824–1894), author of ''Kucharka Litewska'' (Lithuanian Cook), the first Lithuanian cookbook

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