Blessing of Lithuanian Cross in the Vatican Gardens

During a ceremony on Monday morning, 3 March, Cardinal Rolandas Makrickas, Coadjutor Archpriest of the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major blessed a wooden Lithuanian Cross in the Vatican Gardens.

The ceremony was attended by H.E. Gitanas Nausėda, President of the Republic of Lithuania, accompanied by a delegation, by H.E. Ms. Sigita Maslauskaite-Mažiliene, Ambassador of the Republic of Lithuania to the Holy See, and by the Bishops of the Episcopal Conference of the Baltic nation, who are currently in Rome for their national Jubilee pilgrimage. Also present was Francesca Persegati, Head of the Painting and Wood Materials Restoration Laboratory, who led the delicate restoration of the Cross, which was placed in the Vatican Gardens on Monday morning, 24 February, by the maintenance staff of the Vatican Gardens.