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Posted: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 9:19 pm
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Pilgrims will have the opportunity to take a virtual journey back to the time of Jesus at a unique exhibition held during the 50th International Eucharistic Congress (IEC2012) which will be hosted in Dublin from 10 - 17 June.
This three dimensional exhibition titled 'Through the Eyes of the Apostles: Life Overwhelmed by a Presence' will transport visitors to Capernaum, the village on the shores of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus lived during His public ministry. The sensory rich reconstructed surroundings will include the smell of the trees and the sound of the lapping of waters. It will allow the visitor to walk in the Apostles footsteps and truly experience what it must have been like at this pivotal moment in history.
Writer, John Waters, a key speaker at the Congress, who saw the exhibition last year in Rimini, described feeling: "impossible not to be moved, impossible not to be transported. For what I felt was that suddenly I had been embraced in something involving a collapsing of time and space. History was foreshortened and the past 2,000 years became irrelevant. I was in Capernaum. I had returned to the centre of history. 'Is He here?' I found myself wondering. Is He here?"
This exhibition relives what happened when Jesus arrived in Capernaum and what those people witnessed. It documents several key elements of His ministry; the waterfall at which John the Baptist baptized Jesus; the village, Capernaum, a reconstruction of the house of Peter, where Jesus stayed at an early stage in his public life; the locations in which Jesus spoke; and finally, the location of the Resurrection.
Opening dates and times: 11 - 16 June.
Open from 10am - 8pm Venue: Simmonscourt Complex, RDS. |
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