Annual Exhibition 2020/2021
Prayer – Conversing with God
Annual Exhibition in the Baroque Hall of the Abbey Library of St Gall
8 December 2020 to 7 November 2021
Prayer
is common in most societies. People address God or the Divine. They
plead, praise or give thanks, sometimes they lament or even curse.
Because
it connects with another world, prayer comes to have a particular
freedom of form. In rituals, conversely, it is highly structured and
adheres to conventions such as the amen, with which almost every
Christian prayer closes.
This year-long exhibition of the Abbey Library illustrates the development of Christian prayer in its many different forms.
It
is complemented by Katharina Heigl’s photographic exhibition entitled
Faces in Prayer which presents interreligious expressions of prayer.