Month: February 2025

THE FOUR EVANGELISTS’ PAGE FROM THE BOOK OF KELLS

February 21st 2025

 The Evangelists’ Symbols page from The Book of Kells, f.27v.  early 9th Century. The Book of Kells and similar books contain the texts of the four Gospels.  Each Gospel is richly embellished with beautiful and intricate decoration and is  prefaced

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Veronese’s Christ among the doctors in the Temple

February 16th 2025

“Christ among the Doctors in the Temple”,  Paolo Veronese c.1560, Prado, Madrid.   The 12 year old Jesus is shown teaching in Temple as told in the Gospel of Luke (Lk 2:41-52). Veronese clothes the doctors in beautiful and brightly

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BASSANO’S MIRACULOUS HAUL OF FISH

February 8th 2025

“The Miraculous Draught of fishes”, Jacopo Bassano,  1545, National Gallery of Art, Washington.   In 1545, Pietro Pizzamano, who was governor of the Italian town of Bassano del Grappa, about 65km from Venice, commissioned this work.   What he got

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Edinburgh Catholic Chaplaincy

The Catholic Chaplaincy serves the students and staff of the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University.

The Catholic Chaplaincy is also a parish of the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh (the Parish of St Albert the Great) and all Catholic students and staff are automatically members of this parish.

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