The article presents the eating habits and diet of the monks of the Holy Trinity Monastery in Vilnius, which belongs to the Lithuanian province. It was determined what rules defined these customs and to what extent they were observed by the monks, what food products the menu of the community consisted of and what were the sources of obtaining products. A comparison with the Basilian monastery in Lviv, representing the Crown (Ruthenian) province of the order, allows us to better understand the specificity of the Basilian eating culture. Its specificity was largely determined by the abandonment of the ancient monastic tradition of not eating meat. Other features were determined by post-Tridentine monasticism and the socio-economic factors of society at the time.

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Dr. Dorota Wereda and Dr. Dzanis Liseyczykau presented the project in the Basilian community in the monastery in Rome. They participated in a meeting with the historian of the Order, Father Porfiry Pidruczny.

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From May 30 to June 1, 2024, Dorota Wereda participated in an international conference in Kaunas at Vytautas Magnus University - MONASTIC LIFE IN LITHUANIA: HISTORY AND PERSPECTIVES, podczas której wygłosiła referat nt. Foundations of Basilian monasteries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 17th-18th centuries.

The Vilnius University Library has published a collection of digitized historical documents "Union Collection" (Unijos collection). The collection includes documents (manuscripts, letters, printed books, plans, paintings, illustrations) for the history of the Uniate Church from the resources of the Vilnius University Library. Many of these documents concern the history of the Basilian orders.

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On the initiative of Dr. Ina Kažuro, on May 7, 2024, a plaque commemorating the activities of the printing house run by the Basilian Order in Vilnius was unveiled on the building of the former Basilian monastery next to the Holy Trinity Church in Vilnius. The Basilian printing house in Vilnius operated intermittently from 1628 to 1839 and published over 700 books and other prints in many languages.

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  1. Dr. Ina Kažuro is the co-author of an article on typography at the Basilian monastery in Vilnius
  2. Dorota Wereda and Ina Kažuro's text was published in "Rocznikach Humanistycznych".
  3. Places of Marian cult in the Lithuanian province of the Basilians in the 17th-18th centuries are the subject of an article published in the magazine "Saeculum Christianum", volume 30, no. 2 (2023).
  4. Activities of the Basilians in two monasteries in Jakobstadt (Courland) and Iłłukszta (Semigalia)

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