Monday, August 12, 2013

The Roots of Southern Culture: Illuminated Manuscripts

When Our Lord God the Holy Spirit was living and active among our ancestors on the British and Irish Isles, illuminated manuscripts were among the works of beauty they produced.  If we repent as our ancestors did, then, and only then, can we expect the beautiful to manifest itself among us once more in numerous and various ways.

These few pictures (via Wikipedia) are from only one such manuscript, The Book of Kells:









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