John’s University and was one of only eight people involved in The Saint John’s Bible project committee. Sister Irene served as an adjunct professor in the Theology Department at St. in O’Malley-McAllister Auditorium on the Benedictine College campus. Scholastica Monastery, will offer a special lecture on The Saint John’s Bible at 7 p.m. On March 29, Sister Irene Nowell, OSB, Ph.D., a noted biblical scholar and member of Mount St.
The Convocation and Arts Committee has planned additional programming around the exhibit. In the end, it is a unique blend of ancient techniques and materials and modern themes and imagery. The goal was to illuminate, rather than illustrate, the Bible. A team of artists and scribes under the direction of Donald Jackson, prominent illuminator and calligrapher to Her Majesty's Crown Office in Parliament, created the Bible from 1995-2011. The Saint John’s Bible is comprised of more than 1,130 pages and 160 illuminations contained within seven volumes, with each page of text is 15 7/8 inches wide and 24 ½ inches tall.
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The exhibition is free and open to the public. The pieces displayed next to the Dining Hall will be available throughout the day. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 12:30 – 4:30 p.m., or by appointment. The galleries will be open on Wednesdays from 2 – 8 p.m. Benedict’s Abbey and the Benedictine College Art Department, the fine art prints will be on display in the McCarthy Gallery of Art in Bishop Fink Hall, the Abbey Gallery on the lower level of the Abbey Church, and the foyer leading into the Dining Hall.
Benedictine College’s Convocation and Arts Committee will host an exhibition of 25 archival prints from The Saint John’s Bible from March 13 through Easter Sunday, April 16.Ĭo-sponsored by St. In the 21 st Century, Saint John’s Abbey and University, in Collegeville, Minnesota, commissioned The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten and illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in more than 500 years. In the Middle Ages, monasteries helped preserve humanity’s body of knowledge through meticulous copying of existing books and writing of new texts. Gospel of John Frontispiece and Incipit, Donald Jackson, Copyright 2002, The Saint John’s Bible and the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Order of Saint Benedict, Collegeville, Minnesota, USA. The Saint John's Bible Comes to Benedictine College
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