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50 Litų 550th Birth Anniversary of St Casimir
| Issuer | Bank of Lithuania |
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| Year | 2008 |
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| Currency | New litas (1993-2014) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of Saint Casimir, patron saint of Lithuania, depicted in the manner of a traditional icon. The saint is shown wearing an ornately decorated royal robe adorned with floral and foliate motifs, a crown upon his head, and a nimbus behind. He holds a lily stem in his right hand and a rosary in his left. The dates 1458–1484 are inscribed vertically along the left field, and the legend ŠV. KAZIMIERAS curves along the right periphery. |
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Casimir Jagiellon, born 1458, became the only Polish-Lithuanian royal prince to be canonized, a process finally completed by Pope Paul VI in 1984 — making this 2008 issue a commemoration arriving just over two decades after that long-delayed Vatican recognition. He died at Grodno in 1484 at around twenty-five, likely from tuberculosis, and his cult had been active in Vilnius for centuries before Rome made it official.
Lithuania adopted him as its patron saint, a designation carrying particular political weight given the Soviet suppression of religious observance throughout the occupation decades preceding independence in 1990.