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    The Kražiai College (Latin: Collegium Crozensis) was a Jesuit college (equivalent to a modern secondary school) in Kražiai, Grand Duchy of Lithuania and...
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    Kražiai. After the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, when Samogitia regained its freedom, Kražiai became the district centre. In the 15th century Kražiai was...
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    Gymnasium of the Kražiai College, one of the most important centers of education and Jesuit science in Lithuania, was transferred from Kražiai to Kaunas, and...
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    the number of priests. Giedraitis invited the Jesuits to Kražiai where the Kražiai College was established already after his death and the Bernadines...
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    Mikuckytė Narbutienė). In 1817, Jan began studying at Kražiai College. While still at the College, he had helped found a secret society called the Black...
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    works by his brother the Catholic priest Antanas Juška. Educated at Kražiai College and Kharkiv University, Juška as a Roman Catholic could not obtain...
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    15 October 2002 Kaunas Church of St. Gertrude 15 October 2002 Kražiai Kražiai College 15 October 2002 Vilnius Vileišis Palace 9 October 2003 Kaunas Siručiai...
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    family of an office worker, Fromas received some education at the Kražiai College. He worked in various government offices until he purchased a farm...
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  • the Braunsberg College in 1642–1644. Was a rector of the Płock College [pl] in 1644–1647, Polotsk College in 1650–1655, and Kražiai College in 1661–1665...
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    of Grand Duke Vytautas (died in 1430). His uncle Aloyzas attended Kražiai College and later became a priest. His father owned 36 dessiatins of land and...
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    brother Jonas Juška. With the help of his brother Jonas, Juška attended Kražiai College and later transferred to the Vilnius Theological Seminary. He was ordained...
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    Academy of Vilnius – Czerniewicz taught grammar and poetry in the Kražiai College (1750–53) before being called to Rome where he was secretary for the...
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    Jonas Jaknavičius (category Academic staff of Kražiai College)
    Jesuit chancellery worker, teacher, Rector of the Kražiai College, Smolensk College, and Vilnius College. Jaknavičius prepared and published a book about...
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    of Grand Duke Vytautas (died in 1430). His uncle Aloyzas attended Kražiai College and later became a priest. With his uncle's help, Šliūpas received...
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  • spread to schools in Kaunas, Kėdainiai, Panevėžys, Svislach as well as Kražiai College. Many students were expelled or sentenced to katorga. After the closure...
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  • Revival. Born to a family of petty Samogitian nobility, Poška attended Kražiai College. From 1786–1821, with some breaks, Poška worked as a lawyer, regent...
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    Stanisław Kiszka. Until 1743, the seminary shared premises with the Kražiai College. In 1770, a new brick building in the late Baroque style was built...
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    Kaunas Priest Seminary (category Universities and colleges in Kaunas)
    the diocese. In 1628, the seminary moved to Kražiai where it shared premises with the Jesuit Kražiai College until 1745. Bishop Antanas Domininkas Tiškevičius [lt]...
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  • often incorrectly recorded as 1774. From 1786 to 1792, he attended Kražiai College (equivalent to secondary school) and then enrolled into Vilnius University...
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    dedication survives in only one copy of the book which was kept by the Kražiai College and Simonas Stanevičius. It is dated 1 March 1599. It is a panegyric...
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    over the administration of the Kražiai College, a former Jesuit school. After Tsarist authorities secularized the college in 1817, the Carmelites established...
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    to have only one gymnasium in Kaunas which was transferred from the Kražiai College. The nobles and the Jews promised to provide funds for the construction...
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    years of novitiate (1754–56). There followed a spell of teaching at Kražiai College (1756–58) and theological studies in Pinsk (1759–63), where he was...
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    in the family estate at Švėkšna Manor. In 1820, he enrolled in the Kražiai College where Simonas Stanevičius became his teacher. A year later he transferred...
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    progymnasium in Telšiai in 1860–1864, and gymnasium in Kaunas [lt] (former Kražiai College) in 1866–1869. He did not complete the gymnasium education and withdrew...
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    1834 he returned to Lithuania to take up a teaching position at the Kražiai College. In 1840 he was assigned to the Vilnius Theological Seminary, where...
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  • Minsk (Belarus). In 1740–1742 – Professor of philosophy at the Jesuit College in Kražiai (Lithuania). In 1742–1746 – Procurator of the province of the Jesuit...
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    buildings. He often worked with the Jesuits, including funding their College in Kražiai. He strongly believed his service should be rewarded with land grants...
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    for a time in the 1830s. He left Vilnius to take a teaching position at Kražiai Gymnasium in 1837. While plans were being drawn up to close the venerable...
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    now Vilnius Jesuit High School and Church of Saint Casimir Jesuit college in Kražiai (1616–1773), now a tourism office and elderly care center Jesuit novitiate...
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