Vilnius, 1850

The Jesus of Šnipiškės is a figure of Christ that used to be located in a chapel in Vilnius near the Green Bridge. The Jesuits who erected it and took care of it wanted to remind Vilnius residents of the sacrifice of the monks of St Roch, who were all killed by the plague after staying back in the city to tend to the sick. The sculpture disappeared during the 1950s, when the chapel near the Green Bridge was destroyed under the orders of the Soviet authorities. In 2017, the figure of the cross-bearing Christ was unexpectedly found in the basement of the church of St Raphael. Although the piece has been damaged, it can be assumed that it is the famous image of the Jesus of Šnipiškės.