Religious Sites and Sacred Spaces in Lithuania and Poland: A Comparison between the Šiluva Complex and the Świebodzin Statue of Jesus

This paper compares two religious sites associated with the Catholic Church: Šiluva in Lithuania, where a religious complex has existed for several centuries because of visions of the Virgin Mary seen there in 1608; and the much more recent statue of Jesus Christ erected earlier this century in the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Robert Parkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ELM Scholarly Press 2018-12-01
Series:Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
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Online Access:https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/7/66