Hidden for 200 years, vast Baroque murals rediscovered in Vilnius’ St. John’s Church

Hidden beneath layers of paint for more than 200 years, one of the largest surviving Baroque Christian painting programs in the Baltic region has emerged inside St. John’s Church at Vilnius University in Lithuania.The church, formally named the Church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Apostle and Evangelist, has yielded a discovery that is both archaeological and religious.It reveals an almost untouched vision of Catholic worship from the 18th century and offers new evidence that Lithuania was…