Elena Spirgevičiūtė was a Lithuanian student born in Kaunas in 1924. A devoted Catholic, she is recognized as a servant of God following her death in early 1944. During the Second World War, she lived in Kaunas and attended a gymnasium directed by the Sisters of Saint Casimir. Her life and spiritual connection to God were documented in a diary she maintained during her school years. She was killed by Soviet partisans while refusing to submit to their sexual advances, an act of resistance that led to her martyrdom.