Description

The miraculous painting of Our Lady of Święta Lipka, also called the painting of the Mother of Christian Unity, was created at the request of the Superior of Jesuit Mission, the Abbot T. Clagius or his successor the Abbot M. Leski.

The painting was created in 1640 by a Flemish painter B. Pens in his studio in Vilnius. The oil painting on canvas, measuring 2.20 m x 1.50 m, is based on the miraculous icon of Our Lady of the Snow “Salus Populi Romani” from the Roman Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Thanks to the goldsmith S. Grewe, the whole canvas is covered with a silver robe, with a generous plant ornament and ribbons, from underneath which the faces and hands of Mother of God and Child appear. The artist also created gilded crowns, halos, stars, rays and two angels.