Jonas Stripaitis

First vicar of Kalnynų, pragmatic, welcomes the new second vicar for extra assistance. Now serves as vicar of Kalnynų parish, interacts with Liudas, discusses wheat prices, cooperatives, and offers Liudas gifts and choir duties Stripaitis escorts Vasaris, behaves boisterously in the salon, argues with Sokolina Former vicar now serves as a member of the Seimas Stripaitis greets Liudas flamboyantly, delivers political rantings about clergy power and Moscow, and mocks Liudas’s Westernized look. Visits Liudas, delivers sarcastic political lecture, debates clergy hypocrisy. Stripaitis appears in the audience at the drama premiere.