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Mushrooming on a lone hill in northern Lithuania, tens of thousands of crosses bear witness to this Baltic state’s deep Catholicism and tenacity under the old communist regime.
The huge cluster, with imposing crucifixes of intricately carved wood, rises above the surrounding plain. But the fervour of the faithful becomes clearer at the site itself, Kryziu Kalnas meaning “Hill of Crosses”.
Rosaries cascade like waterfalls on the approach pathways. And the larger crucifixes are surrounded by endless smaller ones, fashioned with everything from ice cream sticks to seashells and even car license plates.
“We can’t really say exactly when it began,” said Brother Linas Vodopjanovas, 35, head of a Franciscan friary founded at the site in 1998. But today it draws about a million pilgrims and visitors each year.
Lithuania only formally converted to Christianity at the end of the 1300s, centuries after most of Europe, but eventually took wholeheartedly to Roman Catholicism which is now the faith of 85 percent of the 3.4-million-strong population.
The hill’s religious pull came far later. Read more
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