20 Facts About Antanas Milukas

Antanas Milukas was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest, book publisher, and newspaper editor working among the Lithuanian Americans.

Antanas Milukas was searched by the Tsarist police for violating the Lithuanian press ban and fled to the United States where he completed his education at the St Charles Borromeo Seminary.

Together with Julija Pranaityte, Antanas Milukas published some 190 Lithuanian books.

Antanas Milukas assisted in editing Varpas and Tevynes sargas and Zinycia.

Antanas Milukas organized a handwritten Lithuanian-language weekly newsletter, initially known as Knapt.

Antanas Milukas contributed articles to the banned Lithuanian press, including Varpas and Ukininkas, and was involved in its smuggling and distribution.

Antanas Milukas was searched by the police in connection with the Sietynas case.

Antanas Milukas was assigned to the Lithuanian parish of St George in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania.

Antanas Milukas worked at the Church of St Mary of the Angels, a former Methodist church located at the end of the Williamsburg Bridge.

Antanas Milukas was the parson of Lithuanian parishes in Philadelphia at the Church of St George and in Maspeth, Queens at the Transfiguration Roman Catholic Church.

Antanas Milukas later was a chaplain at the St Catherine's Hospital in Brooklyn and at the St Francis Sanatorium for Cardiac Children in Roslyn, New York.

Antanas Milukas was active in the Lithuanian American public life, becoming co-founder and member of numerous societies and devoting his time to Lithuanian publications.

Antanas Milukas organized the Bishop Motiejus Valancius Library Society, which published 10,000 copies of his book on how to learn to write in Tilsit in 1893.

Antanas Milukas created a poster showing the difficult cultural and educational conditions in Lithuania and exhibited his three-volume Lietuviskas albumas, a photo album with explanatory text in Lithuanian and English, which was awarded a gold medal at the fair.

Together with Julija Pranaityte, Antanas Milukas published some 190 Lithuanian books.

Antanas Milukas translated and published The History of the Lithuanian Nation and Its Present National Aspirations based on articles originally published in Zvaigzde by Antanas Jusaitis.

Antanas Milukas wrote and published two major books on the Lithuanian Americans, two-volume Pirmieji Amerikos lietuviu profesijonalai ir kronika and Amerikos lietuviai XIX simtmetyje.

In total, the circulation of Antanas Milukas' books exceeded 500,000 copies, but it was not a profitable activity and Antanas Milukas died in poverty.

Antanas Milukas edited various Lithuanian newspapers, including Vienybe Lietuvninku and Garsas Amerikos lietuviu.

When Tumas could no longer edit Zinycia, Antanas Milukas merged the magazine with Dirva.