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041 Reliquary of St Casimir

Vilnius, 1637

The noble Gosievskis family gave this statuette with relics of the saint to Jesuit Church of St Casimir in Vilnius. In the early 19th century, after the Jesuit order was suppressed and the church made into a parish, the reliquary was moved to the altar in Vilnius Cathedral. A matching figure of bishop St Stanislaus was added, as during Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth these saints were typically shown together as the patrons of the two states.