Exhibition
Stampitas - Prayer Cards
Jun. 8th – 13th 2023
Small Archive and production techniques of old Prayer Cards in our shop window.
The Prayer Card has always played a fundamental role in spreading the Christian religion since its origins, around the XV century. In the past centuries the majority of people could not read nor write. Education and access to books or sacred texts were reserved to elite of people, while the vast majority of the devotees could not consult them firsthand. This lack was compensated partly by cathechesis, sermons during masses, verbal evangelization, which orally passed epsiodes and passaged from the Bible and spread the philosophical and spiritual principles of the Christian religion. Images were another powerful means of diffusion since the very beginning. Since the Prayer Card is, as its name says, printed, we need to wait until the invention of printing to be able to talk about that.
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