(particularly of the Society of Saint Casimir) and Lithuanian life under the Polish rule. It was a moderate newspaper and, unlike most other Lithuanians periodicals in Vilnius Region, did not have issues confiscated by the Polish police. Taškūnas also contributed articles to other Lithuanian periodicals published in Vilnius (Kelias, Jaunimo draugas, Vilniaus rytojus) and in independent Lithuania (Mūsų laikraštis, Draugija, Šaltinis). In 1932, Taškūnas also published a 64-page booklet with prayers for pilgrims to the Verkiai Calvary. It was republished in 1940. Taškūnas liked to travel. He visited Rome in 1925, Poland in 1935, France and Switzerland in 1937 (including the World Exhibition in Paris), Ukraine (including Truskavets resort where he sought treatment) and Italy (including an audience with Pope Pius XI) in 1938. He published his travel impressions in Vilniaus aušra. In December 1938, Polish authorities banned the activities of the newly established Lithuanian chapters of the Catholic Action established by the Archdiocese of Vilnius because its leader Kazimieras Pukėnas showed too strong pro-Lithuanian sentiments. The archdiocese dismissed Pukėnas and replaced him with Taškūnas, but these Lithuanian chapters did not gain more traction. Later life During an air raid by the Soviet forces on the night of 23 March 1942, a bomb fell onto the clergy house of the Church of Saint Nicholas, Vilnius. It killed priest , his housekeeper, and Taškūnas' sister and severely injured Taškūnas and Mečislovas Reinys. Taškūnas spent several months recuperating. He had a limp and chronic pain for the rest of his life. Just before the air raid, Taškūnas was appointed to the ecclesiastical court (tribunal of second instance) of Vilnius Archdiocese. He wanted to refuse this appointment as he did not feel competent enough for such work, but he continued to work at the court and the diocesan chancery until 1948. He was also the vice-rector of Vilnius Priest Seminary in 1942–1944. Archbishop Mečislovas Reinys selected , Taškūnas, and Juozapas Dubietis as his successors and administrators of the archdiocese. Reinys was arrested by the KGB in June 1947 and Basys was forced to resign in 1949. The Soviet authorities did not allow either Taškūnas or Dubietis to take over the diocese and exiled them from Vilnius; instead, the authorities selected Kazimieras Paltarokas. Taškūnas lived as an altarista in Trakai and Naujoji Vilnia. He later returned to Vilnius to live with his nieces. He died on 18 February 1967. He wanted to be buried