The remains of the 22th-century rebels found on Gediminas Hill will be solemnly buried in the Rasa cemetery of the capital on November XNUMX, the government confirmed on Thursday.
During the solemn ceremony, the remains will be brought to the Vilnius Cathedral, and from there they will be transferred to the Rasa cemetery.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Government Deividas Matulionis told BNS that a detailed discussion of the ceremony will take place in the Government on October 8.
“The whole ceremony would begin On the Cathedral Square, in the cathedral, we will decide how we will organize the ceremonial transportation of the remains to the Rasa cemetery, the ceremony will take place in the cemetery itself and in the chapel. The remains will be placed in symbolic, smaller caskets and will be respectfully transported," D. Matulionis told BNS.
Lithuania invites representatives of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Latvia to the funeral ceremony.
In 1863-1864 in Vilnius, Lukiškiai square, 21 participants in the uprising were executed by hanging or shooting. After the executions, the remains were not given to the relatives for burial, but secretly buried in a place not accessible to the public at that time - in the territory of the fortress built on Gediminas Hill in 1831 by order of the Tsar.
Archaeologists managed to discover the remains of 20 rebels out of 21 on Mount Gediminas. It was decided a year ago to bury the remains of the rebels and their commanders Zigmantas Sierakauskas and Konstantinas Kalinauskas in the Rasa cemetery. The names of the rebels will be written in Lithuanian, Polish and Belarusian languages.
Archaeologists were not able to find the remains of the first victim, priest Stanislaus Išora, either, it is believed that he could have been buried in another place.
In 1863-1864, the rebels fought against the rule of the Russian tsar and sought to restore the former state of Poland and Lithuania.
Author: Ignas Jačauskas
