Droga krzyżowa litewskich kalwarii i jej związek z Polską

Abstract

Lithuania today as a Christian country has been more than 600 years. Religious confessed in this country are as follows: Catholic, Orthodoxy and Protestants. One of the religious practices in of Lithuania and Poland - is way stations of the Cross of calvaries, which consists of places or stations to honour the suffering of Christ and Mary. These places or stations are situated in the open spaces or in the churchyards placed in chapels fit into with pictures, sculptures and when visiting these places prayed and meditated upon their suffering by saying special prayers, singing religious hymns and having special rituals. There are 7 calvaries, now there are 6 in use. Studies of these calvaries have placed a foundation to look at their analogies in Poland. The object of this work is the ways of the Cross of Lithuanian calvaries: connections with Poland. The result of the studies are the brought up and substantiated hypothesis that the ways of the Cross of Lithuanian calvaries has been a mirror of the ways of the Cross of Polish calvaries. The ways of the Cross of Lithuanian calvaries was North East European Catholic culture forpost against Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Islam and later - Atheism. Contreformation and other important events during the XVII-XIX centuries had a great influence. It was the time when Lithuania and Poland had as important place in the history of European Catholic Church.