To wrap up a week that started off with the illustrations of the Book of Kells, let's take a tour of the monastery that produced it. Located in Kells, County Meath, Ireland, the Abbey of Kells is no longer functioning but once it housed the monks that created this illuminated manuscript and saved much of the literature of Western civilization from destruction. It was founded by St. Columba and reestablished by Columban monks fleeing a Viking invasion of Scotland. The church pictured, St. Columba's Church, is an active Church of Ireland (the autonomous Irish branch of the Anglican/Episcopalian Communion) parish.
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