The street of the capital - one of the most famous streets in the Old Town of Vilnius, where the at

The street of the capital - one of the most famous streets in the Old Town of Vilnius, where the attentive passer-by is necessary hello kitty cake to draw attention to the great memorial plaque on the side of St. Church of St. John the wall with a large skull and cross bones underneath. This memorial board bricked 1759. Naugarduko hello kitty cake nobleman John Chreptavičius ordered to pay tribute to loved ones who have died and to this day is one of the most famous examples of symbolism grim death in Vilnius.
Since ancient times, the symbolism of the skull was associated with death and bodily temporariness of life, but in spite of all the tragic sense, it was a constant reminder of the immortality of the soul and spirit of the victory over the matter. Mysterious images of skulls and threatened attracted by reminding the imminent end and think about the value of the real meaning of human life. Skulls were often met with religious symbolism hello kitty cake throughout Europe, so gloomy-looking passers-by to the images of death and can be seen in our capital.
It goes without saying that most of the death and the end of all the symbols encountered there where a person wants to do not want to have to think about the inevitable meeting with uncertainty, so the death symbolism and allusions hello kitty cake to death inherent in a sepulcher, churches and other religious sense related sites. St. external. Apostles Peter and Paul's church in the walls of at least a few snippets of a memorial plaque with skulls on them as shown, and the inscription on one of them declares that in front of the throne of God must not forget those who are living memory is very expensive.
Unknown eighteenth century. copy of the picture painted by the artist can be seen on the side wall of the church. hello kitty cake It shows in 1710. Spreading the devastated capital of death plague. Expressive works of art of that time imparted a terrible tragedy: besivoliojančių many dead bodies and buries them people, bony Death with a scythe, hello kitty cake the heavenly wrath arrows breaking the Mother of God, in the distance to see Peter and Paul Church, Three Crosses, Upper Castle. The figure stands poses a threat bloody pink color of the sky, which is not surprising - after all, in ancient times it was believed themselves holy plague hello kitty cake - that of the Black Death insurmountable, austere Supreme descends as punishment for the sins of mankind.
Conveys a slightly different idea of death crowned with a large scythe in the hands of the sculpture inside the church. Death reigns, and is not relevant nor titles, nor riches, nor for life achievements. It stands pamynusi crown ruler and priest Mithras as if announcing hello kitty cake errant those who are looking for the meaning of life only in the outer gloss and demonstration in vanity, and her scythe - very old 'lives Harvest "symbol, which probably stemmed from the sickle - one of the pagan Roman god of agriculture Saturn attributes . Each of Agricultural end of a cycle and the harvest is meant the end of a sort, and so eventually harvest tools themselves have become ruthless and inevitable death symbols. "Revelation," also refers to the sharp sickle armed with heavenly angels who dislodge great "harvest hour, find the" ripe harvest, and then everyone will receive according to their merits.
The inner St. Apostles Peter and Paul Church trim can see more of their skulls with bat wings sticking. It may be that this sinister creatures of hell, though, such as the English tradition stemming from the skull wings symbolizes the soul leaving the body of the dead.
1930. Czech Republic sarcophagus made of Vytautas hello kitty cake the Great Reaper also marked symbolism. It had to rest so far discovered hello kitty cake the remains of the Grand Duke. Lounge sarcophagus production in a 500 - anniversary of the death anniversary of Vytautas the Great took care signatory Donatas Malinauskas, 1933 Czech artists made work of art reached the Polish-occupied Vilnius, the capital of the Department of the place but he did not and then undertook to protect the sarcophagus Vilnius Lithuanian Society. After the Second World War, leaked to the sarcophagus irretrievably lost, but it was not true, and from 2012 onwards. empty coffin began to exhibit the basement of the Vilnius Cathedral. Vytautas the Great provided tomb lid is decorated with Double Cross, and the sarcophagus in the side wall of the skull surrounded by oak leaves and acorns - ancient nobility, strength and greatness of character. Vegetable motif framed dekoratyvinėje gold-colored band, which, according to the symbolic meanings of colors, could mean the light, the power and dignity of the sovereign.
St. underground. Casimir's Church stands the eighteenth century crypt. black and white, probably Jesuit hello kitty cake monks painted wall murals that deal with themes of death and resurrection. Frescoes surrounded hello kitty cake by dreary hello kitty cake Latin inscriptions from the Bible, hello kitty cake such as, "I lie down with your fathers" or "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."