Amazing Pictorial Of The Hill Of Crosses (Videos) Memorial Day Tribute
By Josey Wales
The fight between good and evil has been on going since the beginning of time. The Hill Of Crosses is a very mysterious place. The history behind the Hill Of Crosses is astounding.
The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage.
At one point in time all the crosses were wiped off this hill, but by the grace of God, they have been replaced through time. It now has more than 100,000 crosses on it and the numbers are still growing.
In 1993 it was visited by Pope John Paul II. The Hill of crosses in Lithuania has left a deap inpression on Pope John Paul II. Also by initiative of Pope was build Monastery close to the hill.
As you are about to see, many of these crosses were hand carved by worshipers and master craftsman.
Over the centuries, the place has come to signify the peaceful endurance of Lithuanian Catholicism despite the threats it faced throughout history. After the 3rd partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, Lithuania became part of the Russian Empire. Poles and Lithuanians unsuccessfully rebelled against Russian authorities in 1831 and1863. These two uprisings are connected with the beginnings of the hill: as families could not locate bodies of perished rebels, they started putting up symbolic crosses in place of a former hill fort.
When the old political structure of Eastern Europe fell apart in 1918, Lithuania once again declared its independence. Throughout this time, the Hill of Crosses was used as a place for Lithuanians to pray for peace, for their country, and for the loved ones they had lost during the Wars of Independence.
Most recently, the site took on a special significance during the years 1944–1990, when Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union. Continuing to travel to the Hill and leave their tributes, Lithuanians used it to demonstrate their allegiance to their original identity, religion and heritage. It was a venue of peaceful resistance, although the Soviets worked hard to remove new crosses, and bulldozed the site at least three times (including attempts in 1963 and 1973). There were even rumors that the authorities planned to build a dam on the nearby Kulvė River, a tributary to Mūša, so that the hill would end up under water.
On September 7, 1993, Pope John Paul II visited the Hill of Crosses, declaring it a place for hope, peace, love and sacrifice. In 2000 a Franciscan hermitage was opened nearby. The interior decoration draws links with La Verna, the mountain where St. Francis received his stigmata. The hill remains under nobody’s jurisdiction; therefore people are free to build crosses as they see fit.
Over the centuries, not only crosses, but giant crucifixes, carvings of Lithuanian patriots, statues of the Virgin Mary and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims.
| Number of crosses | |
|---|---|
| 1900 | 130 |
| 1902 | 155 |
| 1922 | 50 |
| 1938 | Over 400 |
| 1961 | Destroyed 5,000 |
| 1975 | Destroyed 1,200 |
| 1990 | Some 55,000 |
| 2006 | Over 100,000 |
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Good place to put them… piled high all in one spot so it looks like a tip.
You do realise the cross and Jesus are pagan in origin, here he is, Dionysus-Ysus-Jesus dying on the cross, ancient Greece c400 BCE. A jovial character with a love of the vine, and turning water into wine.
http://www.entheology.org/pocm/headers/header_slices/header_pagan_christs_dionysus_right_r1_c1.jpg
Pix, you are an idiot! I feel for your lack of faith, but what you spew is atheistic mythology, nothing more
PIX, listen to martel, the “communist white-skinned male odd god” “worshipper!
His avatar is “dressed for battle”, as ALL judeo-chris0CREEPS follow “religions” THAT, in reality are KILLER CULTS, filed with “brain-washed from birth” pre-programmed killing-monsters, like martel, ready to visit violence and death upon you PIX, for NOT “Defending the FABLE, like “it” (martel) does.
Because you “do not go along with his” “beliefs”, you are an “idiot”!
Spoken like a true judeo-chris0CREEP, martel!
WHEN judeo-christianity/muscleSCUM “Confidence Scams” ARE ALL OUTLAWED WORLDWIDE,
WAR WILL END!
You think NOT???
Well…………………..read on!
Let’s look at the violent actions of euro-Caucasian refugee christian ameri SCUM patriots as a group over the last 50 years or so, in the ultra-violent land “they made”, called the united Fascist states of Military TERROR!
QUESTIONS:
What group WILLINGLY sent their “all volunteer” military to attack ANOTHER defenseless country (Iraq, a former ally) and kill over 900,000 civilians, radiate the county, as well as their OWN precious “heroes” with Depleted Uranium Munitions, and still whine about 4,000 of their dead “heroes” “buying the farm”?
Answer: U.S. Christian patriots!
What group WILLINGLY and merrily (they see it as their “duty”) sends their OWN CHILDREN off to any foreign DEFENSELESS country to kill, rape, pillage and plunder?
Answer: U.S. Christian patriots!
What group is like a “trained attack dog” ready to “kill on the command” of their very evil leaders?
Answer: U.S. Christian patriots!
What group is willing to let their tax dollars be used to KILL, KILL, KILL?
Example: Defenseless rice farmers with NO navy and NO air force, that ON COMMAND, they killed 3,000,000 of them in a 10 year time frame, while still whining about the 58,000 DEAD “heroes” that “their side” lost during the Viet Nam Massacre?
Answer: U.S. Christian patriots!
What group has attacked SO MANY COUNTRIES since 1980 that they cannot name them all?
Example: Here is the list: The United States, officially a secular nation but predominantly Christian, attacked;
El Salvador (1980), Libya (1981), Sinai (1982), Lebanon (1982 1983), Egypt (1983), Grenada (1983), Honduras (1983), Chad (1983), Persian Gulf (1984), Libya (1986), Bolivia (1986), Iran (1987), Persian Gulf (1987), Kuwait (1987), Iran (1988), Honduras (1988), Panama (1988), Libya (1989), Panama (1989), Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (1989), Philippines (1989), Panama (1989-1990), Liberia (1990), Saudi Arabia (1990), Iraq (1991), Zaire (1991), Sierra Leone (1992), Somalia (1992), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993 to present), Macedonia (1993), Haiti (1994), Macedonia (1994), Bosnia (1995), Liberia (1996), Central African Republic (1996), Albania (1997), Congo/Gabon (1997), Sierra Leon (1997), Cambodia (1997), Iraq (1998), Guinea/Bissau (1998), Kenya/Tanzania (1998 to 1999), Afghanistan/Sudan (1998), Liberia (1998), East Timor (1999), Serbia (1999), Sierra Leon (2000), Yemen (2000), East Timor (2000), Afghanistan (2001 to present), Yemen (2002), Philippines (2002) , Cote d’Ivoire (2002), Iraq (2003 to present), Liberia (2003), Georgia/Djibouti (2003), Haiti (2004), Georgia/Djibouti/Kenya/Ethiopia/Yemen/Eritrea War on Terror (2004), Pakistan drone attacks (2004 to present), Somalia (2007), South Ossetia/Georgia (2008), Syria (2008), Yemen (2009), Haiti (2010), etc. etc. etc. etc.
Answer: U.S. Christian patriots!
ANY QUESTIONS, Julie, and your fellow VIOLENT white-skinned ameriiSCUM LUNATICS that worship the white-skinned human male “prince of peace’?
YOU ARE ALL WAR-MONGERS!
No wonder you are so concerned about fetuses!
YOU christian KILLER CULTISTS ARE RUNNING OUT OF LIVE PEOPLE TO HUNT AND KILL!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Mangod. Spit!!
What a wonderful story! I need to see more “hopeful” stories like this more ofter!