Christianity's Continuance Commemorated by Cluttered Crosses

alleyesonCHRIST ^ | 4/26/2010 | Charles C. Matthews

[alleyesonCHRIST]

If a picture is worth a thousand words then what are a thousand crosses worth? How bout 100,000 crosses? The Hill of Crosses boasts in excess of 100,000 crosses to remind on-lookers of the sacrifice that Jesus Christ paid for the sins of mankind.

[iHikeinGodsCreation]

That’s amazing! Thanks for sharing.

[Notwithstanding]

The soviets used to destroy it periodically, but it would rise up again almost overnight.

[Brugmansian]

Read that Christians were fighting the Soviets in the Baltic states 5 years after WWII ended. Stalin send in muslims from
Chechnya to fight them.

[Notwithstanding]

In their suffering, the Catholic pilgrims always wish to stand with the Blessed Virgin Mary, the sorrwoful mother, at the foot of the Cross. Wikipedia: "The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The exact origins are unknown, but it is considered that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the centuries, not only crosses, but giant crucifixes, carvings of Lithuanian patriots, statues of the Virgin Mary and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006."

[ravingnutter]

Wow. I have a “cross wall” in my living room, I stagger the crosses so that they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle, I have a big wrought iron cross with a clock in it in the center. Every one is special, my friends and family gave them to me as gifts on special occasions. The most unusual one is a dried chicken breast bone that looks like Jesus on the cross that my Dad found right before he died.