- At the point when John Paul was chosen Pope in 1978, he covertly requested his cardinal's cap to be snuck into then-Soviet-involved Lithuania and be set...
- The Gate of Dawn Chapel is also included within the European Marian Network, which links twenty of the most significant shrines honoring Mary in Europe.
- The exterior view of the Gate of Dawn as viewed from within the old town in Vilnius, Lithuania.
- At that time, the city’s defensive wall had ten gates, though the Gates of Dawn are the only ones to have survived to the present day.
- The Gate of Dawn is an important pilgrimage site for Catholics in the historic city centre of Vilnius.
- In Lithuania itself there are 15 churches as well as Lithuanian parishes in Montreal and Buenos Aires devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Gate of Dawn.
- The miraculous painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Mercy in the Gates of Dawn is one of the most famous Renaissance paintings in Lithuania.
- The Gate of Dawn, or "Sharp Gate" is a city gate in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and one of its most important religious, historical and cultural monuments.
- The gate was once the exit of the town, but nowadays its in the middle of the city an is exit only from rich and glamorous old town to the district that harbors train...