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image by Virginijus Misiunas, 12 December 2009
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Tirksliai (Mazeikiai District) - on a blue field a silver pale
with 5 red hearts palewise. Flag proportions 5:6, free edges
bordered with black and silver rope, finial is a silver knob with
silver bands. The charge is related to the shrine in the centre
of town: on three sides of it there are placed 5 red hearts.
Two local legends exist about that shrine:
(1) it was built in 1667 by local landlady Vazinskiene in the
memory of her son tortured by the Swedes;
(2) it is built by local landlord Vazinskis in the memory of his
servant tortured by Swedes but who did not reveal the hiding
place of the landlord's wife Vazinskiene and her 4 children.
But historians say the shrine was built in 1867 in memory of the
uprising in 1863 and its insurgents. Anyway, these
hearts symbolize love, courage and fidelity.
Virginijus Misiunas, 12 December 2009