Photo Exhibition on Christian Feasts by Hungarian Artists from Abroad

A photo exhibition entitled Christian Feasts has been opened in Oradea (Nagyvárad, Romania), composed of material from the Foundation for the Evangelization of Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin (KÁMME). In her speech at the opening ceremony on Wednesday, Katalin Szili, Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister, stressed that faith has always been a saving force for Hungarian communities, and therefore, even in the face of today’s challenges, “our task is to preserve Christian Europe.”

She said it was uplifting for her that the exhibition was being opened on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Roman Catholic Bishop Lőrinc Schlauch of Oradea and the 162nd anniversary of the death of Greek Catholic Bishop Vasile Erdeli, who died in Oradea, during the Holy Week of Easter. She noted that there had been many periods in history when it was the Church that had “carried Hungarian communities to the other shore and preserved them for the future.”

“In the third decade of the 21st century, in the shadow of war, facing pandemics, migration, and many other challenges,” she said, it was “terribly difficult to preserve” what Christian values should mean in Europe. However, she believes that the photo exhibition of the KÁMME Foundation, a foundation of the Association of Christian Intellectuals (KÉSZ), is a good opportunity for introspection, reflection, and looking to the future, as it presents works that preserve important values.

Katalin Szili stressed that the week before the feast of the Resurrection is not only a time of suffering, but also of hope. In the context of the war in Ukraine, she expressed her hope that reason and common sense will prevail and that a world will return “where peace will be more important than war, where understanding will be more important than ruthlessness.”

The photo exhibition Christian Feasts, selected from the photographic workshop of the KÁMME Foundation, covers the four great Christian feasts: All Saints’ Day and the Day of the Dead, Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, and Pentecost. The exhibition of works by Hungarian artists from abroad, based on Christian and national traditions, was previously presented in Csorna, Nyíregyháza, Máriapócs, Nagykároly, and Hajdúszoboszló.

Via MTI, Featured image: Facebook/KÁMME Alapítvány