On December 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Rev. Tomas Karanuaskas of St. Casimir Church displayed the image of Virgen de los Remedios at the main door and led devotees in offering votive candles for the end of the pandemic. It is a tradition that images and religious icons are displayed in times of plague, disasters and imminent danger. St. Clare took out the Blessed Sacrament on her window to defend the city from invaders. The image of Our Lady of Trakai was brought in procession from Vilnius, Lithuania to stop the 1712 pandemic.