Spring and its perhaps most beautiful month, May, will become a symbol and witness the rebirth of glass chandeliers in two places in the Crystal Valley, separated by only a few kilometres, in Zákupy and Cvikov.

On Saturday, 10 May 2025 at 2 p.m., the blessing of the new chandeliers will take place in the Dean's Church of Sts. Jan Baxant. Also present will be the ambassador of the project, the director Alice Nellis, and the actor Jaromír Hanzlík, who also significantly supported the chandeliers for the Zákupy church.

On Sunday, 11 May 2025 at 10.00 a.m., the blessing of the reconstructed crystal chandelier in the Church of St. Elizabeth of Hungary in Cvikov will take place during the Sunday Mass, which will also be performed by His Excellency Mons. Jan Baxant. The two places will thus be connected not only by glass, light, word and art, but especially by the goodwill of the people who have contributed their financial gifts to the restoration of the chandeliers for both churches.

The spiritual symbols of both days will be two women who did good for their surroundings during their lifetime and who left a deep spiritual and material legacy on the former Zákupy estate.

The first of them is St. Zdislava of Lemberg, patroness of the Liberec Region, Litoměřice Diocese, patroness of the sick, the poor and families, whose canonization is thirty years old this year. Since 2021, her crystal monstrance and reliquary has been kept in the Church of St. Elisabeth of Hungary in Cvikov, thus directly connecting the church with this important saint.

The second personality is one of the most important women of the Czech Baroque, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who had churches, rectories and other sacred monuments built on her estates, including the one in Zákupy, and had a group of nineteen so-called Figure Reliquaries imported directly from Rome. Two of them, namely St. Felix and St. Anthony, are located in Zákupy, and the third, St. Julius, in Cvikov.

Behind the project of the rebirth of the glass chandeliers in Zákupy and Cvikov is the charitable artistic-spiritual project Sacrystal, in which the production manager David Sobotka, the master of glass painting and stained glass Zdeněk Kudláček and the Roman Catholic priest, Pater J. M. Can, joined together. Rudolf Repka.