“They brought a donkey and a foal and put their coats on them, and he sat on them. And a large crowd sent their coats on the road, and others cut the twigs out of the trees and sewed on the road. And the crowds that preceded him and followed him cried aloud, Hosanna to the boy of David. Blessed is he who comes into me, Yahweh. Hosanna at heights.”
From the Gospel according to St Matthew
Palm branches in Christian tradition appeal to this triumphant entry Jesus declared king, although only from the tallness of the cross on Golgotha will he come to regulation as this exalted Kyrios. In him everything renews and finds its first brilliance and splendor.
So the palm trees precede the glory of the Resurrection—the triumph of life over death. They become a sign of reconciliation, forgiveness and peace, The immortality of the soul and the triumph of good over evil—a synonym for redemption.
In ancient times, the symbolism Palms were utilized erstwhile it was about revealing what was perfect, spiritual, beautiful, wise, and glorious, and what could inactive be found in the Old Testament. The inhabitants of Jerusalem cheered in honor of Christ to pay homage to him and greeted him in the city with palm branches.
Palm Sunday has been celebrated in Poland since the mediate Ages. On that day, the faithful bring palms to the church, symbol of rebirth of life. Palm is next to this, an ancient symbol of Vilnius, and palm making is simply a tradition of Vilnius Land. frequently conventional Easter palm trees are called Vilnius palm trees in Poland. The oldest ones, now only museum objects, were made of waxed paper. Later, the paper replaced grain ears, dried flowers, grasses, and herbs, sometimes dyed into intense colors. Before the war on 4 March, on the day of St. Casimir the King (the boy of Kazimierz Jagiellończyk) – the patron saint of Lithuania and Poland – in Łukiski Square, where the fairs (the celebrated Kaziuk) were held, 1 could already admire and buy these authentic works of art – as the Nastorka of Polish activists in Vilnius, Janina Gieczewska, says. On Palm Sunday, they were a decoration of church squares, where the faithful going to Mass to 40 Vilnius churches could buy them along the way. Even then, Vilnius palm trees were known throughout Europe, and were peculiarly sought in France. The most colorful, woven from herbs and flowers are the alleged kilim palms (carrots), the delight of Ferdinand Ruszczyc himself, who described them, and it is possible that sometimes he designed or inspired creatively to make them.
What is characteristic of the current tide (though) The Lithuanians effort to compete with finesse specimens of our Podwilenian countrymen, but the effect of their work is usually simply pathetic. I've seen it before. It was very good that since the 1990s the Association of the Commonwealth of Poland organized annually before all Palm Sunday in the Polish home in Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw, where it has its headquarters, large fairs of Vilnius conventional palm trees, Easter eggs and another handicrafts, and later with its products besides our creators from Belarus and even from Ukraine. Coming to the home of Polonia was besides an excuse to talk to the Vilniuses and another Kresians and aid them.
This was an activity entirely within the following objectives of the association, which will make its preamble, which states:
– expressing assurance in the integrity of Polish culture, the community of Polish fates and the request for solidarity in maintaining national identity; taking action for the good name of Poland and Poles regardless of their degree of integration in the country of residence;
– expressing the intention that the legislature of the Republic of Poland should take the patronage over its statutory activities;
– while declaring his willingness to cooperate and cooperate with the Minister of abroad Affairs of the Republic of Poland, he pursues his goals, among others, by maintaining and spreading the national tradition, nurturing Polishness and developing national, civic and cultural awareness, culture, art, protection of cultural and national heritage, cooperation with the environment, institutions, local authorities, national and abroad organizations curious in developing ties with the Homeland of Poland and Poles residing abroad.
Unfortunately, the alleged pandemic interrupted the fairs of Vilnius palm trees, and since a year the Community of Poland has become alternatively a servant of Ukraine, implementing, for example, the "Open labour marketplace – training and advice for people from Ukraine" project, even though specified tasks are carried out by labour offices. The question asked by telephone why there were no Vilnius palm trees, was answered that there are telephones in this case, but ... failed to organize the fair this year, but possibly it will win in the future, which most likely requires no comment... So it remains to go to the Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw or. in Krakow, due to the fact that only there can 1 be satisfied with the craftsmanship of the Poles from Vilnius.
Halina Ostovich
