100,000 Crosses

100,000 Crosses

Crosses cover the hill entirely—they crowd each other so tightly, it would be impossible to walk through them. A thin cloud blankets the sky, and all is quiet and tranquil. I think of Lithuanians first placing crosses on the hill during the nineteenth century to...
Hill of Crosses

Hill of Crosses

The Hill of Crosses is located in Lithuania, a small Eastern European country in the Baltics (beneath Estonia awp-nd Latvia). It is about twelve kilometers north of Šiauliai, a city in the central north of Lithuania. Lithuanians began placing crosses on this hill in...