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Šiluva Chapel and Šiluva

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The tall, white, majestic Chapel of the Revelation captivates the viewer of Siluva from afar. Its height is 44 meters. Inside the chapel is an altar built on the stone of the apparition. Above it - the Blessed Virgin. Statue of the Virgin Mary. The altar is almost in the center of the chapel and can be bypassed, so many pilgrims, asking for God's graces, walk about it along the way. The walls of the chapel are decorated with murals depicting the most important events of Šiluva: the baptism of Samogitians in 1413. In the Dubysa Valley, The appearance of the Virgin Mary in Šiluva, the discovery of the ark with the property of the Catholic Church; Crowning of the Virgin Mary's miraculous image. 1933 in the chapel were the stations of the Seven Sorrows of Mary, which people would willingly go through.