About the place

Passer-by:

– What a strange name you have – Barnabas.

Sculpture:

– Barnabas was one of Christ’s twelve apostles. After the death of Jesus, together with the apostle Paul, he preached the Good News.

Passer-by:

– Now that is a story! Looking at you, I do not see the persistent Barnabas you are telling me about. I see a thoughtful man sitting on the edge of a ship and looking up at the sky, searching the map of the stars for an unknown land. You radiate calm and acceptance.

Sculpture:

– Sculptor Rimantas Daugintis, who carved me, searched for his own path throughout his life. His sculptures preserve in stone childhood memories, his mother’s voice, the perseverance of his exiled father…

Passer-by:

– The writer Hemingway wrote a story called “The Old Man and the Sea”, about a fisherman struggling with a gigantic fish caught on his line. And although the old man returned to shore without his catch because sharks devoured the fish he had caught, he felt infinitely happy, as though born again.
In you, Barnabas, I see that enlightened old man of Hemingway. Like him, you are alone, without your great fish, yet you look happy. You sail on and fear nothing.