Londono lietuvių Šv. Kazimiero bažnyčios šimtmetis

LTKnyga skirta Londone nuo 1901 m. veikiančios Lietuvių misijos ir Šv. Kazimiero lietuvių katalikų bažnyčios istorijai iki šių dienų. Joje tiriamos lietuvių kūrimosi šiame mieste aplinkybės, kultūrinis bei socialinis aktyvumas, bažnyčios vaidmuo konsoliduojant išeivių bendruomenę, puoselėjant jos tautinę tapatybę skirtingais istoriniais periodais, bažnyčioje dirbusių kunigų (tarp jų beveik 70 metų - vienuolių marijonų) veikla. [Leidėjo anotacija]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Emigracija; Katalikų bažnyčia; Parapijos; Londonas; Lithuania; Emigration; The Catholic Church; Parish; London.

ENThe Lithuanian Roman Catholic Church of St. Casimir in the Bethnal Green area of the London borough of Tower Hamlets has been the centre of the religious life of the London Lithuanian community for over 100 years. Several generations of immigrants from Lithuania have married and been baptized in the church, membership of the associations and societies affiliated to it and the attendance of cultural and patriotic events in it have strengthened the communal life of London Lithuanians. The history of this church can therefore be the key to an understanding of the diverse experiences of waves of immigrants into London, as well as of Lithuanian identity. A church functioning in an immigrant community fulfils not only a religious mission - it also serves to demonstrate through its emergence and long existence the vitality of the consciousness of an ethnic group, its needs and the opportunities presented to communicate successfully in a foreign country. Some of the most im portant aspects of St. Casimirs Church and the London Lithuanian parish are analysed in this book - the religious life of the Lithuanian immigrant community, intertwined with the patriotic cultural activities initiated and coordinated in the parish, as well as the ties with Lithuania fostered by clerics who have worked in the church, at a time when considerable efforts were required to maintain links with those that had remained behind in Lithuania.Three waves of migration, each one larger than the one before, are characteristic of the emigration of Lithuanian Catholics to Great Britain and London, waves connected with 1) the emigration from Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century (the maximum number of Lithuanians who had settled in London by the turn of the 20th century reached about 2000); 2) the settlement of war refugees coming into Great Britain from the displaced persons’ camps in Germ any after World War II (according to data from historians, 5732 Lithuanians came in after 1947 but the majority of those, when the opportunity presented itself, emigrated to the USA and the other countries and the number of Lithuanians once again became about 2000; and 3) the particularly large wave of immigration from 1990 and still continuing (according to approximate data there are about 200,000 Lithuanians living in Great Britain today and about 40,000 living in London). [...]. [Extract, p. 364]

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