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Sunday, November 2, 2008 1:15 pm Preserving Humanity’s Historic Written Cultures
Presented by: Father Columba Stewart, OSB, D. Phil As the world’s unrivaled leader in digital manuscript preservation, The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), sponsored by Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, has been preserving manuscripts in Europe, Africa and the Middle East since 1965. Today, HMML is the only institution in the world exclusively dedicated to the photographic preservation and study of manuscripts, with a particular emphasis on manuscripts located in places where war, security, or economic conditions pose a threat. HMML is making a critical impact in these preservation efforts around the world, including many geopolitically important areas that are difficult to serve, such as the Middle East. Come learn how and why HMML is preserving humanity’s rich and diverse cultural heritage.
The Basilica of Saint Mary In the Teresa of Calcutta Hall, located on the lower level of the Basilica’s undercroft. The Basilica’s Fourteenth Annual Icon Festival will include an exhibit of icons in the church November 1-23. The icons, 17th century to contemporary, are borrowed from churches and individuals in the area. The Icon Festival opens with a procession of icons during the 9:30 am & 11:30 am Masses on Sunday, November 2. Free parking is available: on 17th street & in the two Basilica surface lots; in the MCTC ramp (16th & Hennepin) - enter on Laurel Avenue; and under the freeway at 17th & Hennepin. Visit www.mary.org for directions.
Questions? Contact: Kathy Dhaemers | Associate Director of
Sacred Arts The Basilica of Saint Mary | Hennepin Avenue at North 16th
Street Minneapolis p. 612.317.3438 | kdhaemers@mary.org |
 Columba Stewart, OSB, has been the executive director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library since 2003. A native of Texas, Fr. Columba received his B.A.. in History and Literature from Harvard College, an M.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University, and his D.Phil. in Theology from the University of Oxford. He is a professor of Theology at the Saint John’s School of Theology, and has published extensively on monastic topics at both popular and scholarly levels, including Prayer and Community: the Benedictine Tradition and Cassian the Monk. At HMML, Fr. Columba has developed the Library’s extensive program of manuscript digitization in the Middle East, overseen the expansion of HMML’s mission to embrace The Saint John’s Bible and the University’s special collections of rare books and art, including the Arca Artium collection. |
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October 7, 2008 HMML inaugurates new speaker series: Ex Oriente Lux The Rev. Columba Stewart, OSB, executive director of Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), is pleased to announce a new speaker series, Ex Oriente Lux (Light from the East): Eastern Christians Illuminating Global Events. The first event in the series takes place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct.7 at Room AV2 in Alcuin Library on the Saint John’s University campus. The event is free to the public, and is preceded by a reception at 3:30 p.m. in the lower lobby of Alcuin Library. The featured speaker will be Chorbishop John D. Faris, associate secretary general of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, www.cnewa.org, a papal agency founded to provide humanitarian and pastoral support to the Eastern Christian churches. His presentation, entitled, “Church and Churches: The Spread of Christianity from Jerusalem,” will explore how Christianity went from being a small group of Aramaic-speaking Jews in Jerusalem to being the world’s most diverse, populous, and widespread religion.
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February 11, 2008
Wisdom Books: The Saint John's Bible Original Folios of Wisdom Books from The Saint John's Bible on Display for oPublic Viewing (Collegeville, Minn., 2008, February 11)...For the first time, original folios from Wisdom Books: The Saint John’s Bible will be on display for public viewing. The exhibition, which includes 28 original pages, begins Feb. 18 and runs through Dec. 31 at the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) on the campus of Saint John’s University. Wisdom Books is the fifth completed volume of The Saint John’s Bible and includes some of the Old Testament’s literary masterpieces, including Song of Solomon, Ecclesiastes and Proverbs. The volume also includes the much-loved book of Job and two Old Testament works including the Wisdom of Solomon, which was originally written in Greek and Sirach which come to us from the Greek tradition. Among the pages on view are Wisdom Woman, The Garden of Desire, Pillars of Wisdom, Mirror of Wisdom and the inspiring Creation, Covenant, Shekinah, Kingdom. Also on display are tools and materials from the scriptorium such as quills, hand-ground pigments, gold leaf, calfskin vellum and ancient inks from China. Wisdom Books continues the work of earlier volumes with a script created by calligrapher Donald Jackson specifically for this project. Artists from earlier released volumes - Thomas Ingmire, Suzanne Moore, Chris Tomlin and Sally Mae Joseph - are joined by new contributing artist Diane M. von Arx of Minneapolis to bring light – that is, illumination - to the text. The images are not to be missed. |
Visitors to HMML can view 14 double-page folios from the Wisdom Book of the Saint John's Bible. |
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