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Today Ilūkste resembles a rather remote town for many. It was mentioned as a small village in the mid-16th century. Gradual development began here after the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was founded. Old Believers, Lutherans and Catholics built their churches there. Support for Jesuits by the landowning Zyberg family gradually made Ilūkste one of the Duchy’s main Catholic centres. St. Ursula’s...