Looking out from the balcony of our apartment in Old Town Vilnius, I could not have been more delighted. For down below, alongside the road that bordered the Old Town, flowed River Vilnele and across it a bridge that led…

Looking out from the balcony of our apartment in Old Town Vilnius, I could not have been more delighted. For down below, alongside the road that bordered the Old Town, flowed River Vilnele and across it a bridge that led…
“Thank you, Lithuanians, for this hill of crosses which testifies to the nations of Europe, and to the whole world, the faith of the people of this land.” Pope John Paul II, Hill of Crosses, Lithuania, September, 1993. It did…