From Inspiration to Illumination an afternoon with The Saint

John’s Bible

A Handwritten Bible For the New Millennium

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota commissioned a work of art that illuminates the Word of God for a new millennium and designed to ignite the spiritual imagination of believers throughout the world.

TheSaintJohn’sBibleis the first handwritten, monumental, illuminated Bible commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in the modern era. It was created by scribes in a Scriptorium in Wales under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson, one of the world’s foremost calligraphers and the Senior Scribe to the Crown Office of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Bible was completed in 2011, and its permanent home is the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

incorporates many of predecessors: it was written on vellum, using quills, natural handmade inks, hand ground pigments and gild such as gold leaf, silver leaf and platinum. And yet, it employs a modern English translation (NRSV) as well as contemporary scripts and illumination.

Join us on Saturday, February 18 at 4 p.m. for presentation by Tim Ternes, Director of TheSaintJohn’sBibleProject.

Patty Rutzler, Committee Chair, pattyw33@aol.com

Rev. Craig Goodrich, Senior Pastor, craigg@fpcnaples.org