New book

Tips on a hundred spiritual places of power

In front of the Mathis organ in Klagenfurt Cathedral: Karl Hren, Georg Messner, Matthias Kapeller, Ferdinand Bucher, Ferdinand Neumüller.(Bild: www.karlheinzfessl.com/agb)

Sacred treasures in the Alps-Adriatic region are bundled together in a new book to provide ideas for excursions.

Christian places of power at the intersection of three cultures are described in the new book "Sources of Power 5", which Matthias Kapeller, Head of the Press Office of the Diocese of Gurk, has published with Hermagoras Verlag. This fifth volume in the successful "Sources of Power" series focuses on church organs, Christian places of worship from Roman times and sacred wall and ceiling paintings in Carinthia, Slovenia and Friuli.

The bishop's church of Teurnia in St. Peter in Holz in Upper Carinthia is one of these places of power.(Bild: www.karlheinzfessl.com/agb)

Experts in search of clues
Experts from various disciplines have set out in search of the common cultural and spiritual roots. Archaeologist Franz Glaser describes early Christian places of worship such as Aquileia and the Hemmaberg. Church musicians such as Melissa Dermastia, master of the cathedral chapel in Graz, present the diversity of the "queen of instruments". Art historians present wall and ceiling paintings from nine centuries. "With this book, you will discover cultural and spiritual treasures," promises Kapeller.

"Sources of Power 5 - 100 Sacred Treasures between the Alps and the Adriatic", 220 pages; available in bookshops for 28.90 euros.