Pažaislis
suburb of Kaunas, Lithuania
Pažaislis is a neighborhood ("territory") of Kaunas, Lithuania, within its Petrašiūnai eldership. It includes the Pažaislis Monastery.
History
Originally, there were two places named Pažaislis in the same area. One of them was a folwark owned by Krzysztof Zygmunt Pac. By the end of the 19th century it had 6 households with some 50–60 persons. Another was a manor across Neman. Originally it was owned by the Oborski family and Pac bought it from a Samuel Jan Oborski in 1664. Initially, a wooden hermitage of Camaldolese was built there by Krzysztof Pac in 1664, on the hill called Mons Pacis in Latin (a hint to the Pac family; Literal trans'ation: "Peace Mountain"; Lithuanian: Taikos kalnas, but it may also be read "Pac's Mountain"). Eventually it grew into the monastery. The same year Pac transferred the ownership of the whole Pożajście to Camaldolese and henceforth the place was known as Mons Pacis.
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