Maria Kaupas

Maria Kaupas, SSC, (January 6, 1880 – April 17, 1940) was an American religious sister who founded the Sisters of Saint Casimir in the Catholic Church.

Life Kaupas was born as Casimira Kaupas in Ramygala, Russian Empire. At the age of 17, she emigrated to the United States, where she settled in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to work as a housekeeper for her brother, Anthony Kaupas, who was pastor of St. Joseph Parish there. In 2010, she was found to have lived a life of heroic virtue by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and was declared venerable.