 Barbora's body and hair was blackened, but otherwise untouched by the flames; as a result, her cult grew stronger.Tsarist authorities discouraged Catholicism and the crypt was walled up in 1877 on orders of Pyotr Albedinsky, Governor-General of Vilna; it was reopened in 1896.The remains were put in a glass coffin in the crypt beneath the high altar.