Our Lady of Siluva, Queen of Lithuania

The people who view this blog seem to like hearing about the different apparitions/titles of our Blessed Mother. I will try now as much as I can to do these kinds of posts. Thanks.
The Blessed Mother comes in a time of need.
In the late 16th century, the Protestants began a following in Lithuania. All property of the Catholic church was either stolen or sold. When the church of Siluva was threatened in 1570, the parish priest decided to collect some of the church's most treasured articles, including the beautiful picture of the Madonna & Child that hung over the Main Altar. He then placed everything in a metal trunk and buried it under a large rock near the church. Shortly later, the church was confiscated by the Protestants. Everything that was Catholic was gone. The beloved picture of the Blessed Mother was gone, too, as far as anyone knew. The poor Catholics in Siluva thought that all hope was lost. But shortly the Blessed Mother herself would come to visit them.
The year was 1608. It was a warm, sunny summer day. Only a few shepherds stayed out in the heat and watched their flocks. As far as the shepherds knew, they were the only ones in the field that day-until they spotted a beautiful young woman standing on a large rock, holding a beautiful child, crying as though someone had just died. One of the youngsters was so startled that he ran straight to the Calvinist teacher of the village, Mikola Fiera, who said it was "the devil trying to lead followers away from the Calvinist faith." News of the apparition spread like wildfire throughout Siluva. The next day, the devout and the curious gathered around the large rock. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and before them stood the mysterious woman holding the child. She had her head in her right hand, weeping bitterly. No one spoke. No one knew who she was. Shocked by the apparition, the teacher ventured forward and asked "Why are you weeping, dear lady?" The woman stopped crying and lifted her head. She spoke in broken sentences, "Formerly in this place, my Son was adored & honored, but now all that the people do is seed and cultivate the land." Saying this, the woman and the child disappeared in a flash of light. The crowd was shocked. The venerable Catholics of the village knew in their hearts that the Blessed Virgin & the Christ Child had just appeared to them. The Calvinists tried to argue about the apparition, but the people knew that they were wrong. A short time later, the Calvinist teacher mysteriously left the village and never came back.
News of the apparition reached the Bishop, who promptly sent representitives to Siluva to investigate. A certain blind man in the village remembered the old parish priest who had buried all of the precious articles of the former Catholic church under the large rock-the rock upon which the Blessed Virgin stood. The blind man's sight was restored when he showed the Bishop's representitives the spot. The chest was pulled out from under it, and inside was found the portrait of Our Lady and Jesus, totally undamaged. After many years, the land was returned to the Catholic Church, and the faith was once again restored there. The image of Our Lady under the rock became known as "Our Lady of Siluva," and is now enshrined in the grand basilica. She is the patroness of Lithuania.