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Pierre Soulages. Lithographie n° 32, 1974

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Hashim Akib British artist born in 1967

Midday Light Café" 2022

Acrylic on canvas 70 x 50 cm.

Private collection.

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By John Everett Millais

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Full-page miniature of St Ætheldreda [Æthelthryth], holding a book and a flower, at the beginning of her benediction, 10th C

The Benedictional of St Æthelwold

Anglo-Saxon Manuscript

British Library

A benedictional contains the various blessings pronounced by a bishop throughout the ecclesiastical calendar.

This benedictional was created for one of Anglo-Saxon England’s greatest clerics, St Æthelwold. He was born in Winchester about the year 909, and entered the church as a young man. He eventually became Abbot of Abingdon, and in 963 was appointed to the bishopric of Winchester, a vitally important religious institution in this period. Æthelwold embarked on a programme of building and renovation at Winchester, which culminated in a splendid re-dedication ceremony of the cathedral in the year 980. Æthelwold was renowned as a scholar, and was responsible for a number of glosses, commentaries, and translations of religious texts; he was so well-regarded that the future King Edgar was sent to study with him.