Even during a pandemic Covid-19 visitors to St. Michael’s Church (Michaelskirche) in Fulda are not left without holy water. Despite the fact that at present in the diocese it is forbidden to flood pools with holy water due to fear of infection, a solution has been found.
The entrance to the oldest cemetery church in Germany (originally built in 818-822 as a cemetery church for Fulda Abbey) now has a holy water dispenser that resembles a disinfectant dispenser. It works contactlessly and therefore meets the requirements of the crown. When a hand is extended to the dispenser with holy water, a sensor device is triggered.
“A holy cause and a creative solution,” says Robert Eberle, a spokesman for the Diocese of Fulda. The holy water dispenser is used as actively as the disinfectant dispenser on the other side of the church entrance. Eberle believes that holy water dispensers can also be used after overcoming the coronary crisis.
It is not known how many dispensers of this type are already in the diocese. These are individual community solutions. There are also different models. Eberle said the manufacturers of such equipment were clearly counting on the churches as potential customers.
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