Lithuanian Heritage Collectors Coin - Hill Of Crosses ND

Reverse

Script: Latin

Lettering:
Lietuvos Paveldas
Lithuanian Heritage
Collectors Coin
Kolekcinė Moneta

Edge

Serrated, fine with script

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Comment

The Hill of Crosses (Lithuanian: Kryžių kalnas) is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims.