The Biblical Festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary. It began in May 2005, in Italy, and promoted by the Diocese of Vicenza and the Society of St. Paul, in collaboration with some other institutional, cultural and economic organizations. In all these years, the outstanding element has always been that of a many-faceted cultural and spiritual event that favors the meeting between the Bible and people’s lives, anxieties and searching.
This occurrence uses a multiplicity of languages and ways that include biblical, theological, philosophical, pedagogical, social and economic reflections; the arts and cinema; games, animation in public places and entertainment.
The theme of this 10th year, The Scriptures, God and man speak of themselves, was chosen also in view of recalling the centenary of the foundation of the Society of St. Paul. It alludes to the fact that Sacred Scripture is the narration of the meeting between God and humanity, a narration in which the face of God and the face of man are manifest, take shape together, and create their identity.