Veiled: altars in Freiberg and Chemnitz disappear behind Lenten cloths | free press

The visitors had already pulled out their mobile phones while the altar was being wrapped: They took photos and filmed as the huge Lenten cloth lying on the floor was slowly pulled up on wafer-thin ropes until it was floating in the air and thus closing the altar in St. Mary’s Cathedral Freiberg covered. But even when the visitors were asked to…