Birstonas Sacral Museum (Birstono sakralini muzieju) description and photos - Lithuania: Birstonas (Topic)

Birstonas Sacral Museum (Birstono sakralini muzieju) description and photos - Lithuania: Birstonas. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Birstono sakralini muzieju.

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In the town of Birstonas, next to the Church of St. Anthony of Padua, there is a sacral museum built in 2000. The museum was founded in the former abbot's building and has a characteristic ethnographic style.

The museum is of particular interest to fans of religious art. The museum has a large collection of sacred art - textiles, paintings, liturgical dishes, sculpture and folk art. Visitors to the museum will see two memorial expositions dedicated to the Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Vincentas Sladkevicius and the martyr Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis. Visitors will be able to watch films about them, as well as about the visit of the Pope to Lithuania.

Every month the museum hosts various exhibitions and events: "Christmas post-waiting time", "Meeting with the Icon", "Let's paint Easter eggs together." Also, the museum often hosts cultural evenings - meetings, book presentations, lectures, etc.

In one of the rooms of the building of the sacral museum, upon his return from exile in 1956, Theofilius Matulionis lived and in 1957, at night on 25 December, he secretly consecrated can. Vincentas Sladkevicius.

The Golden Treasury is of particular value in the art exhibition. It displays the most unique and valuable liturgical dishes from the churches of the Kaisiadorys bishopric. Visiting the exposition dedicated to the history of the church, you can see the only book in Lithuania about the Russification of the 19th century and the first Catholic edition of the New Testament in Lithuanian. Religious sculptures and figurines carved from wood are in the Folk Art Hall.

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