Author: Peter Yeoman
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-19
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781849171700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The tiny island of Iona has been a vibrant centre of Christian worship since Columba arrived in AD 563. His monastery thrived for centuries, despite repeated Viking raids beginning in 795. Around 1200, the abbey and nunnery were founded, introducing new forms of worship and new buildings, while still welcoming pilgrims to St Columba's shrine. Even after the Protestant Reformation of 1560 brought an end to Scotland's monasteries, Iona served briefly as a Cathedral of the Isles. Restoration of the buildings began in 1899, and in 1938 the Iona Community was formed, revitalising the abbey's spiritual role. This unique site bears witness to a long history of religious practice that still flourishes today.
Author: Nicki Scott
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 65
ISBN-13: 9781849170710
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anna Ritchie
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781903570227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dr Rosemary Power
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Published: 2013-12-12
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 184825556X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historian and Iona Community member Rosemary Power tells the story of the small Hebridean island of Iona and its remarkable spiritual influence over fifteen centuries. Beginning with the earliest Stone Age settlements, she combines new translations of early Gaelic and medieval Latin prayers with original research to chart: the founding of the abbey in 563ADsix centuries of monasticism: food, lifestyle, work and the pattern of daily prayerarchitecture, the high crosses and early artmedieval Iona: the nunnery, womens lives, and catering for pilgrimspost Reformation Iona: the rebuilding of the Abbey, the lives of the resident population and what visitors from the 17th century onwards experienced
Author: The Iona Community
Publisher: Wild Goose Publications
Published: 2001-03-29
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1849520003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The services and resources in The Iona Abbey Worship Book reflect the Iona Community's commitment to the belief that worship is all that we are and all that we do, both inside and outside the church, with no division into the 'sacred' and the 'secular'.
Author: Roberta Gilchrist
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-02
Total Pages: 275
ISBN-13: 1108496547
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Forges innovative connections between monastic archaeology and heritage studies, revealing new perspectives on sacred heritage, identity, medieval healing, magic and memory. This title is available as Open Access.
Author: J. Philip Newell
Publisher: Paulist Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780809137596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An overview of Celtic spirituality and its implications for us today.
Author: Sally Foster
Publisher: Windgather Press
Published: 2020-04-29
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 1911188607
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on the deck of a puffer delivering the island’s annual supply of coal. What is the story behind this intriguing replica? How does it relate to the world’s first ringed ‘Celtic cross’, an artistic and technical masterpiece, which has been at the heart of the Iona experience since the eighth century? What does it tell us about the authenticity and value of replicas? In this fascinating book, Foster and Jones draw on extensive interdisciplinary research to reveal the composite biography of the St John’s Cross, its concrete replica, and its many other scale copies. They show that replicas can acquire rich forms of authenticity and value, informed by social relations, craft practices, creativity, place and materiality. Thus, the book challenges traditional precepts that seek authenticity in qualities intrinsic to original historic objects. Replicas are shown to be important objects in their own right, with their own creative, human histories — biographies that people can connect with. The story of the St John’s Cross celebrates how replicas can ‘work’ for us if we let them, particularly if clues are available about their makers’ passion, creativity and craft.
Author: Florence Marian McNeill
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13:
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