Why pilgrims come
A sacred place worth the journey.
A surviving city gate crowned by the Carmelite chapel and the venerated image of Our Lady of Mercy, a devotion shared across Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine and connected with the first public veneration of the Divine Mercy image in 1935.
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The pilgrim’s guide
What makes this visit meaningful
Stand where Marian devotion, the old city wall, Polish-Lithuanian Catholic memory, and the early public history of the Divine Mercy image meet.
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The Mother of Mercy icon
Pray before an image that became a spiritual home across several nations.
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First public Divine Mercy veneration
Recall the 1935 display that joined Faustina’s new image to an older Marian shrine.
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A regional Catholic memory
Hear Lithuanian and Polish histories together without claiming the shrine for only one national story.
Feasts, anniversaries & celebrations
Feast of Our Lady of Mercy of the Gate of Dawn
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