Professional paper
Heavenly bread or Homeland between the covers of old prayer books
Dijana Klarić
; Požega City Library
Abstract
The collaboration of Požega Public Library and City Museum of Požega as well as information experts and historians in professional processing, interpretation, and showcasing the old and rare native prayer books from the Museum’s holdings to the public, for its conclusion, had a valuable contribution towards the historic, cultural, geographical and religious identity to the region of Požega. Prayer books are the ones which, with their special place in an individual’s prayer life, absorbed all of those things that he truly is – his identity, sense of belonging, faith, and praying intentions as well as the state of his mind and the actuality of his surroundings. Thanks to this unique and special approach to only one part of the library's holdings, prayer books, we find a way of absorbing the life destinies of people positioned in the historic and native context alongside their hopes and desires. In that special way, we can read the soul of a human between those pages, the soul of a human who, in those incredibly valuable pages, writes their own history with all its components and leaves an indelible historic and geographical mark to those valuable possessions.
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284503
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Publication date:
20.10.2022.
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