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scribes digest         Saturday, March 3 2001         Volume 05 : Number 052



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 [scribes]: URL for Good News 2!
 [scribes]: St. Brigid of Kildare

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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 12:39:46 -0500
From: Randy Asplund <randyaf@provide.net>
Subject: [scribes]: URL for Good News 2!

Sorry I wasn't more clear. My home page URL is always listed on all of
my email at the bottom on the attached signature file. I believe all
systems display that, but if anybody doesn't get that displayed, please
let me know so I don't presume it always shows up.

Just in case, the URL is: http://www.provide.net/~randyaf

Scroll down on the web page and there will be a section announcing it
with the link to download.

RanthulfR

Floriligeum@aol.com wrote:
> 
> I am VERY interested in seeing the page you mentioned in your posting
> to the
> scribes.  But, I did not see any web address for it.  Could you send
> me a
> link or a web address?
> 
> Thanks & have a great weekend,
> 
> Sarah
> Shire of Caer Adamant
> East Kingdom

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2101 S. Circle Dr., Ann Arbor, MI. 48103

See a Universe of art ranging from Medieval Manuscripts 
to Star Trek and Magic: The Gathering at:
http://www.provide.net/~randyaf
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 15:48:36 -0500
From: "Sally Burnell" <sburnell@raex.com>
Subject: [scribes]: St. Brigid of Kildare

I was looking up St. Brigid of Kildare in the online Catholic Encyclopedia,
since I have kind of adopted her as my personal "Patron Saint". I have worn,
since 1989, a "Brigid's Cross" necklace that was given to me by my mother. I
was really tickled to read the following:

<Not alone was St. Bridget a patroness of students, but she also founded a
school of art, including metal work and illumination, over which St. Conleth
presided. From the Kildare scriptorium came the wondrous book of the
Gospels, which elicited unbounded praise from Giraldus Cambrensis, but which
has disappeared since the Reformation. According to this twelfth- century
ecclesiastic, nothing that he had ever seen was at all comparable to the
"Book of Kildare", every page of which was gorgeously illuminated, and he
concludes a most laudatory notice by saying that the interlaced work and the
harmony of the colours left the impression that "all this is the work of
angelic, and not human skill". Small wonder that Gerald Barry assumed the
book to have been written night after night as St. Bridget prayed, "an angel
furnishing the designs, the scribe copying". Even allowing for the
exaggerated stories told of St. Brigid by her numerous biographers, it is
certain that she ranks as one of the most remarkable Irishwomen of the fifth
century and as the Patroness of Ireland. She is lovingly called the "Queen
of the South: the Mary of the Gael" by a writer in the "Leabhar Breac". St.
Brigid died leaving a cathedral city and school that became famous all over
Europe.>

As a scribe, I could not help but be rather pleased that Brigid founded a
school for illuminators! Somehow, that makes her all the more a good Patron
Saint for me to have adopted!

A pity that the Book of Kildare managed to disappear during the Reformation,
though. I would love to have seen it. To have survived that long only to
disappear seems such a sad thing. Wonder what became of it? Wonder if
someone hid it from those who might have wanted it destroyed as a symbol of
the Catholic faith? Who knows, maybe it is still extant somewhere in hiding.
Wouldn't it be marvelous if it could be re-discovered somewhere and brought
back into public view?

~Saradwen

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