The Lithuanian Embassy in New Delhi on March 22 organized a fun-ction to recall the services of a Jesuit priest who worked more than six de-cades among the poor in the western Indian state of Maharashtra.
Jesuit Father Donatas Slapsys, born in Lithuania in 1921, came to India in 1950 and served the people of Ahmednagar in Maharashtra until his death in 2010.
Lithuanian ambassador Diana Mickeviciene welcomed the gathe-ring where Laurynas Kudijanovas made the presentation titled “Heritage and cultural memory of Lithuanian Jesuit missionary Fr. Donatas Slapsys in India.” Kudijanovas said most people in Ahmednagar area remem-ber him as a water-diviner as he had helped many to dig wells and bore-wells.