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Happy St. Patrick’s Day • 432 - St. Patrick established a church in Ireland • Began the Christianization of the Celts • Established monasteries • Relatively independent due to their isolation – • They were situated in inaccessible & inhospitable placed where monks were far from worldly temptation &

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

• 432 - St. Patrick established a church in Ireland• Began the Christianization of the Celts• Established monasteries• Relatively independent due to their isolation –• They were situated in inaccessible &

inhospitable placed where monks were far from worldly temptation & distraction

• Became great centers of learning

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Illuminated Manuscripts – Illuminating the Word of God

Man, (symbol of St. Matthew) Book of Durrow ca. 660-680

Hiberno-Saxon (current day Ireland) Art

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• Carpet Page

• Interlace design

• Abstract designs

• Zoomorphic

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Book of Kells

Chi-rho-iota page (the letters of Christ in Greek)

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High Cross of Muiredach,

Monaterboice, Ireland, 923,

Sandstone, approx. 18’ high (west face)

Found in burial ground adjoining ruins of monateries

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Last Judgment scenes