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.

[1] Petras Kraujelis studied at Mitau Gymnasium, but was expelled for not attending the Eastern Orthodox religious service.

In 1911, he was briefly reassigned as a vicar of the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Trakai.

[2] By his initiative on 28–30 December 1922, a congress of the teachers of the primary schools of Lithuania was convened.

Kraujalis actively resisted Polonization of the Vilnius region and closure of Lithuanian-language schools.