Completed in 1666, up in flames in 1732 and finally consecrated in 1759. A monastery and college were built a decade later, just five years before the Pope decided to abolish Jesuit Order altogether. The resident monks hung around for a while longer before the ensemble was handed over to the Franciscans. In 1843, the church changed hands again, this time becoming the property of the Russian Orthodox Church, when it became the city’s Alexander Nevski Cathedral. After WWI the Jesuits returned to Lithuania from Germany and reclaimed the church, and the monastery became a high school. During the Soviet occupation, the monastery buildings were used as a technical college, the interior of the church as a sports hall, the crypts as a sauna and the church attic housed a shooting gallery no less. The church was returned to the Jesuits in 1990, and was consecrated once again in 1992.