Viekšnių bažnyčios liturginių indų rinkinys

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Auksakaliai; Bažnyčia, Vilnius; Eduardas Kortmanas; Indai; Jonas Kristijonas Michaelis; Liturginiai; Liturginiai indai; Viekšniai; Viekšnių bažnyčia; Vilniaus auksakaliai; Church; Dishes; Eduardas Kortmanas; Goldsmiths of Vilnius; Jewellers; Jonas Kristijonas Michaelis; Liturgical; Sacred Vessels; Viekšniai; Viekšniai Church; Vilnius.

ENIn this article a collection of liturgical vessels of the Viekšniai church is presented for the first time. As is testified by written sources, in the 1 7 th century the Viekšniai church was not pardcularly rich, and its collection of liturgical vessels was not distinguished in any respect among those of the neighbouring parishes, and even was one of the smallest in the deanery. Later the collection has regularly expanded, and old and worn-out Vessels were renovated or replaced with new. The collection grew considerably in the 19 th century with a great deal of new artefacts. During a research expedition held in 2012 two monstrances, five chalices, two pyxes, five patens, and three reliquaries were found in the church. Three altars were decorated with standing crosses. The earliest Mass chalice of the Viekšniai church has made by an unknown goldsmith from Vilnius in the early 1860s . The date of its acquisition - 1862 - and the hallmark are stamped on its bottom. The second chalice from approximately the same period was produced by the Fraget company. The third chalice with a paten was produced by Eduard Kortmann's workshop in St. Petersburg in 1899 - 1903. An artefact made by Theodor Werner's Company bears an engraved donation inscription in Lithuanian: "Jono ir Urszules Skobejkiu apiera Wiekszniu bažnyczej 1905 m.". A chalice donated by the Brockton family in 1968 is currently used for the Mass. Both monstrances are from the period of Classicism, but were acquired at a different time.In 1827 the great monstrance was remade from the old Baroque one produced by Lithuanian goldsmith who used the inicials "IM" (Johann Chrystian Michaelis?), and the smaller one was acquired in the 1850s. The reliquary of the Holy Cross, made by the master of the great monstrance in the early 19th century, also belongs to the group of Classicist liturgical implements. The collection of Classicist vessels boasts a pyx made by an unknown Vilnius goldsmith, which was acquired in 1810. The neo-Renaissance pyx made by the Norblin company was donated to the Viekšniai church by Tadeusz Kumpiekiewicz in 1898. The forged altar cross with acanthus and "pincer" ornaments, created by an unknown Lithuanian goldsmith in the first half of the 18th century, later might have been slightly transformed, and its surface was coated with chromium. [From the publication]