In the altar of the Vilnius Archcathedral you can see the silver St. Kazimierz's coffin hides two wooden coffins with St. Casimir's relics. From time to time these coffins are opened and the relics carefully examined. This is what Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė, the head of the Church Heritage Museum, says.
LRT RADIO listener Eduardas from Kaunas is interested in church heritage. "There is a silver casket of the patron saint of Lithuania Kazimierz in the Vilnius Cathedral. Maybe a hundred years ago or even earlier, some bishop of Vilnius opened the coffin and made an inventory of the relics there. He probably wrote some kind of document. Can someone tell me about it?” asks Eduard.
"The silver casket that we see in the altar contains a wooden casket, and in that wooden casket there is another casket containing the relics of Saint Kazimierz," says S. Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė.
As the documents of the Vilnius Cathedral chapter show, the last time St. Kazimierz's coffin was opened in 1922. on May 30, and it happened at the initiative of the now blessed Bishop Jurgis Matulaitis.
"Those relics were carefully examined and listed. The bones are wrapped in new materials, and the old materials, which were probably from the time of Mikalojus Steponas Paco, were distributed as secondary relics of Saint Casimir to the churches of the Vilnius Archdiocese," says the specialist.
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