VIDENISKIAI
By Rapolas Krasauskas
Videniskiai – village in northeast-ern Lithuania. 
There were 271 inhabitants in 1970 (184 in 1923, 223 in 1959).
In the 13th century the village was part of the historical region of Nalsia, ruled by Prince Daumantas. There are the remains of an artificial mound on which it is believed the Prince had his fortress. The Livonian chronicler Hermann de Wartberge, in writing about the military campaigns of the Teutonic Knights of Livonia against the Nalsia region, describes two of their attacks on the village in 1373 and 1375. During the 15th-17th centuries the estate of the same name as the village belonged to be Giedraitis family of princes. Martynas Giedraitis built the church of St. Laurence in 1618 and settled the Canons Regular there, donating to them some of his lands. Their friary became the main house, the residence of the provincial superior of the Lithuanian congregation a noviciate where the clerics received instruction in philosophy and theology.