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This article investigates the story of St Bruno of Querfurt featured in the fresco cycle in the monastery church of Pažaislis at Kaunas, Lithuania. The frescoes were executed by the Italian artist michelangelo Palloni in the latter half of the seventeenth century. They are to be found in a corridor linking the church with the monastery: eight of them present the story of the saint and three celebrate his apotheosis. The article examines the causes of the circumstances of the appearance of this cycle in the Camaldolese hermitage, the tradition of the veneration of St Bruno in contemporary Poland-Lithuania as well as a detailed iconography of the frescoes. The monastery of Pažaislis occupies a special place in the history of the veneration of St Bruno throughout europe. The cycle of frescoes painted here is the most extensive presentation of the mission and martyrdom of St Bruno in the history of art. The frescoes were painted in a little corridor joining the monastery with the sacristy and sanctuary of the church. recent interest in the frescoes is due to fact that the account of St Bruno’s mission contains the mention of Lithuania – for the first time in historical sources. This article analyses the ways and reasons of the appearance of the cycle on the story of the saint in Pažaislis and its connection with the Camaldolese Order. A question naturally arises as to why such an important cycle of frescoes was produced in a Camaldolese monastery distinguished by the particularly solitary life of its hermits and why it did not spread more widely. That was due to the eremitical nature of the Order and insufficient veneration of St Bruno in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The cult of St Bruno (or Boniface) spread mostly among the monks adhering to the monastic rule of the Benedictines since St Bruno was a Benedictine and a faithful disciple of St romuald, the founder of the Camaldolese Order. The cult of St Bruno was more noticeable in the Camaldolese province of Poland-Lithuania because it was in these lands that he conducted his sublime mission and was killed. LIThuAnIAn hISTOrICAL STudIeS 14 2009 ISSn 1392-2343 PP. 11–26

The Frescoes of Saint Bruno of Querfurt in the Monastery of the Camaldolese Order at Pažaislis