A team of museum employees and church officials gathered at Vilnius Cathedral last fall to plan another search for some medieval royal treasures believed to be hidden in the crypt. They didn’t ...

director of the Vilnius Church Heritage Museum, in the Archdiocese statement. The items were first discovered in 1931 when the cathedral was being cleaned following a spring flood, revealing a ...

Rita Pauliukevičiūtė, director of the Vilnius Church Heritage Museum, emphasized, “These symbols hold immense significance for both the state and individuals, representing European identity ...

“These symbols are important both for the State and for each of us, as a sign of the strength of our roots,” noted Rita Pauliukevičiūtė, director of the Vilnius Church Heritage ...

the owner—the Vilnius Archdiocese Curia, the cathedral—just thought, and I think thought correctly, that these national and ...

This reflects the burial and honouring practices of that time. Rita Pauliukevi i t , director of the Vilnius Church, said that this discovery and the symbols found in it hold special significance ...

A set of 16th-century royal burial regalia concealed in a niche under a staircase for nearly a century has been recovered from the Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania. The gold crowns, rings and other ...