 The famous "Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary" resumed in a small wooden church on the site of the apparition, and the icon of the "Blessed Virgin Mary with the Divine Child" became renowned as a source for miracles.The current-day Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary was erected on the site in 1786.The devotion to Our Lady of Šiluva was suppressed once again during the partition of Lithuania since the event had become a venue for sharing Lithuanian religious and secular books that were smuggled in from Prussia – in spite of a Tsarist ban of any Lithuanian publications in Latin characters.