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Combining literary analysis with historical study, this interdisciplinary article examines how, in interwar Lithuania, the Catholic youth organization Ateitis made use of the vaidilutė – a fabled pagan priestess that tended sacred fires in pre-Christian Lithuania – as an image assisting a newly emerging class of young educated Catholic women to envision their role in nation- and state-building. Analyzing the use of the vaidilutė in both dramatic productions put on by the Ateitis organization and in the magazine  Naujoji Vaidilutė , the article investigates how this medieval figure functioned as a locus for negotiating national, religious, and gender identity.

The vaidilutė: how Lithuanian Catholic youth made a pagan priestess Christian