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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 ...
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Cross at First Baptist Church of Central Florida United States: Orlando, Florida: 28.548272 -81.506951: 60.65 m: 2008: The Cross at the Crossroads United States: Effingham, Illinois: 39.107602 -88.571203: 60.35 m: 2001: Cross of Hope Lebanon: Ijdabra: 34.2491731 35.7010201: 60 m: High-rise building in shape of a double cross with a church in ...
The original wooden Three Crosses were built on the Bleak Hill, the place where seven friars were beheaded, sometime before 1649. That is the year when the crosses were depicted in a panegyric to Bishop Jerzy Tyszkiewicz. Around the same time Tyszkiewicz began a case to canonize the fourteen friars. [5]
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During the expansion of Vietnam some place names have become Vietnamized. Consequently, as control of different places and regions has shifted among China, Vietnam, and other Southeast Asian countries, the Vietnamese names for places can sometimes differ from the names residents of aforementioned places use, although nowadays it has become more ...