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Statue of Pope John Paul II

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Statue of Pope John Paul II

Statue of Pope John Paul II

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    October 2, 2024

    This statue commemorates the prayer of 07.09.1993, which was attended by thousands of believers. This was also the first visit of a Pope to Lithuania

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      July 24, 2025

      Pope John Paul II visited Kaunas on September 6, 1993. In the morning he celebrated a solemn Holy Mass at the confluence of Lithuania’s two largest rivers where thousands were present.

      Over lunch he met with the bishops of Lithuanian at the archdiocesan curia. After lunch and before a gathering with young people at Darius and Girėnas Stadium, accompanied by Cardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius, John Paul II spent some time in personal prayer before the Blessed Sacrament at the main altar of the Kaunas Cathedral Basilica. This event is immortalized in a plaque on a column at one end of the Cathedral, opposite the side entrance.

      The following day, he flew by helicopter to Šiluva, the Lithuanian Lourdes.

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