Здудзіцкі каменны крыж, Stone cross in Zdudzitsy, Belarus

The Zdudzitsy stone cross is a granite boulder about 1.5 m high, with a rounded top shaped like a trefoil. Two vertical and two horizontal lines are cut into its front face, likely marking the stone before working. One side of the base is more massive, probably to keep the cross steady on a slope. It now stands inside the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Parichi.

The cross was found in 1993 by historian T. V. Maslyukov and local researcher V. A. Romantsov while gathering material for the district history book "Pamyat". It had been buried at the edge of a cemetery, possibly on a former church site. In 1997 Natalia Dubitskaya of the Institute of History in Minsk dated it to the adoption of Christianity, around a thousand years ago and no later than the 14th century. In 2004 it was moved to the Svetlogorsk museum, and in 2008 it was given to the church in Parichi.

The cross's rounded top resembles a trefoil, read in Christianity as a symbol of God's unity in the Holy Trinity. A local tradition holds that several such crosses, perhaps seven, once stood near the villages as protective amulets. On Forgiveness Sunday, 9 March 2008, an akathist was read in the Parichi church to mark the cross's arrival.

The cross is kept inside the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Parichi, at Kastrychnitskaya Street 1, about 14 km from Zdudzitsy. It stands indoors, so visits depend on the church being open; the cross is not outdoors at the village cemetery where it was found in 1993.

The cross weighs over 400 kg, and one side of its base is more massive than the other, perhaps to keep it steady on a slope by the river or on a hill. Two vertical and two horizontal lines on its front face were likely marking lines cut before the boulder was worked. A local tradition holds that there were once several such crosses, perhaps seven, set up near villages as protective amulets.