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Lithuania marks 625 Christianization anniversary with special stamp
Danuta Pavilenene, BC, Vilnius, 22.03.2012.
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Print versionIn 2012, Lithuania celebrates the 625th anniversary of Christianization. To mark this occasion, on March 24 Lithuania Post will issue a commemorative stamp, the post said.
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The new stamp features the scene from the Saint Pierre la Jeune fresco in the Strasbourg Church, France depicting the countries having adopted Christianity. Lithuania was the last one to do that, informs LETA/ELTA.
In 1385, the Great Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland signed the Act of Kreva. The Act obliged the Great Duke of Lithuania Jogaila to convert himself and all pagan Lithuanians into Roman Catholicism. In February of 1387, the King of Poland and the Great Duke of Lithuania Jogaila arrived in Vilnius and declared the main three acts legally grounding the Christianization of Lithuania.
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