Vilnius, 1705-1712

In about 1705 Vilnius Cathedral acquired a relic belonging to Josephat Kuncevičius, who was the Greek Catholic archbishop of Polotsk. The reliquary in the form of a sarcophagus was commissioned specially for it. The vessel is decorated with acanthus leaves and crowned with the Greek Catholic archbishop’s miter. Until World War II, the reliquary was carried in annual processions on the feast of St Josephat.