The Šiluva Chapel of the Apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, built in 1924, was not fully equipped during the interwar period and its decoration project was neither realized. The work begun was interrupted by World War II. During the Soviet times thanks to the efforts of the Curia of the Archdiocese of Kaunas and the priest Vaclovas Grauslys (1913–1992), the decoration project for the Chapel of Apparition was prepared. In the decoration programme of the Chapel, an important place is taken by the four images of wall painting and four pictures painted on canvas. In 1979–1980, in the galleries of the dome of the Chapel, the painters restorers Kęstutis Andziulis, Juozas Algirdas Pilipavičius, Albinas Degutis and Vytis Dautartas created the f...