The Tertiaries in the Early Stages of Christianity in Lithuania: their Attributes in the Light of Archaeology

The conversion of Lithuania to Catholicism was followed by the inauguration of related forms of Western European culture. The impact of Christianity is also evident in the Lithuanian archaeological materials. Medieval burial grounds of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries reveal various grave goods not known here before Christianity. Among them there are pouches bearing symbolic marks. The aim of the present paper is to investigate the typical features of the ornamentation and symbolism of the marks of such pouches.