In the crypts of a Lithuanian cathedral ... In December, the researchers opened “a secret hiding place” in the church’s crypts, “where the royal regalia was hidden at the outbreak of ...

But no more. Last December, researchers inspecting the cracks and cavities in the walls of the Lithuanian church’s vaults uncovered the handsome trove, bringing to light princely and historical ...

Most of those responding to the 2025 Jubilee call to be “pilgrims of hope” are expected to join the crowds flocks to Rome, or ...

caretakers of a cathedral in Lithuania decided to hide its royal treasures. Their plan worked — but their hiding spot took 85 years to rediscover. A team of museum employees and church officials ...

Believers hold candles and pray during the funeral ceremony of former Head of the Lithuanian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Emeritus Chrysostomos, in Orthodox Church of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius ...

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died on 6 January aged 90. “Metropolitan Chrysostomos was always an ...

director of the Vilnius Church Heritage Museum, said in the statement, "as a sign of the strength of our roots." Lithuania has few authentic artifacts from this important historical period ...