![Obraz miasta ziemskiego i niebiańskiego w Oratio in sollenni corporis Divi Casimiri translatione habita Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2015_21611.jpg)
Obraz miasta ziemskiego i niebiańskiego w Oratio in sollenni corporis Divi Casimiri translatione habita Macieja Kazimierza Sarbiewskiego
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), a famous Latin poet and a Jesuit priest, delivered an oration on the 14 of July 1636, when the remains of Saint Casimir (1458–1484, canonized in 1602) were transferred to a newly built chapel in the Vilnius cathedral. An important element of the ceremony was a procession through the streets of Vilnius, which inspired the preacher to compare that city to the heavenly Jerusalem depicted in the Book of Revelation.
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