Birchansky sacral Museum Photo: birchansky sacral Museum

In Birstonas near the Church of St. Anthony of Padua is located sacral Museum, built in 2000. The Museum is based in a former rector and has a characteristic ethnographic style.

Of particular interest in the Museum is for fans of religious art. The Museum presents a large collection of sacred art – textiles, paintings, liturgical utensils, sculpture and folk art. Museum visitors will see two memorial exposition devoted to a cardinal of the Holy Roman Church the Vincentas Sladkevicius and Martyr Archbishop Theophilius the Matulionis. Of them visitors will be able to watch movies, as well as on the visit to Lithuania of the Pope.

Every month the Museum hosts various exhibitions and events: "advent is a time of expectations," "Meeting with Icon", "Let's get together to paint Easter eggs". Also in the Museum often hosts cultural evenings – meetings, book presentations, lectures, etc.

In one of the rooms of the sacral buildings of the Museum on his return from exile in 1956 lived Theophilius the Matulionis and in 1957, on the night of December 25, he was ordained secretly in bishops Kan. The Vincentas Of Sladkevicius.

Special value in art exhibition is a Golden treasure. It presents the most unique and valuable liturgical utensils of churches kaisiadoriu of the bishopric. Visiting the exposition devoted to the history of the Church can be seen only in Lithuania book about Russification in the nineteenth and first in Lithuanian Catholic edition of the New Testament. Carved wooden sculptures and figures on religious themes can be found in the folk art.

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