According to a legend, seven Franciscan monks attempting to convert Lithuania to Christianity were murdered there during the reign of Duke Algirdas.
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It was named after Gáspár Bekes from Hungary (1520–1579), a military commander under Stephen Báthory of Poland, who was buried on the hill (he was of Arianism faith and therefore refused admittance to other city's cemeteries).
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