Some people really have nothing holy Thursday Klaus-Peter Grassegger, parish assistant in St. Ulrich near Steyr, had to have this depressing experience. When he wanted to prepare the parish church for the liturgy during the weekend, he found the Gospel, which stood on the side altar “Maria announcement”, badly damaged.
“Each side was torn apart in the middle. The book has 300 pages, which was probably a real job. But nothing else has gone away or destroyed. We are therefore enigmatic what the motive of the perpetrator could have been. In any case, it must have happened between Monday and Wednesday.”
Not the first time
A few years ago a similar incident had already occurred in the neighboring parish of Steyr-Natleit. Because of the method, the repeated perpetrator can be a confused contemporary.
But what is a gospel?
This is a liturgical book that contains the parts of the text from the four gospels of the New Testament that are read on Sunday and holidays. It is also mentioned. The Christian rituals and the events are called liturgy.
Imposed with Bible spots
“We always open our gospel with the Bible passages taken in the stock market. This is always open to the side altar. This is an old tradition,” says Parish assistant Grassegger, who must now worry about how the removal in leather can be restored around 800 euros. The destroyed gospel was probably made in the 1970s or 80s.
There are always vande files in churches. In the previous year, the excitement for a head “Maria” sculpture in the Linz Cathedral was great.
Source: Krone
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