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Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, stressed the importance of continuing the Per Artem Ad Deum award:  - The Sacroexpo is ideal for exchanging thoughts, ideas and inspirations. I am pleased that the Per Artem Ad Deum award will continue because art builds spirituality and is a path to discovering God - said the Cardinal.

The agreement aims to promote artistic and cultural paths inspired by spiritual and religious values and  it opens new possibilities for the development of the Sacroexpo by strengthening its position as a key meeting place for the worlds of art, spirituality and education. The Per Artem Ad Deum Award, granted under the Patronage of the Dicastery, has already been awarded to theologian and writer Anselmo Grün and the Spanish painter and co-initiator of the Neocatechumenal Way Kiko Argüello.

Since 2005, the Per Artem Ad Deum award has been granted by Targi Kielce in conjunction with the Pontifical Council for Culture, chaired by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. The Per Artem Ad Deum Medal has been awarded to 32 artists or institutions whose artistic achievements and heritage contribute to cultural development and shape man's spirituality. According to "Praedicate Evangelium", the new Roman Curia apostolic constitution which entered into force on 5 June 2022, the former Congregation for Catholic Education and the Pontifical Council for Cultures were merged into one body. Thus a new body -   Dicastery for Culture and Education   Subsequent winners of the Per Artem Ad Deum medal are selected under the patronage and auspices of the new institution;

Distinctions will be presented at the ucpoming expo; the 25th International Exhibition of Church Construction, Church Fittings and Furnishings and Religious SACROEXPO is held from 10 to 12 June 2024 in Targi Kielce.