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17 photos and 17 illustrations tagged shrine, from 8 members of Flickr Commons.

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• British Library 17 photos & illustrations
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• National Museum of Denmark 3 photos & illustrations
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• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• SDASM Archives 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Scotland 1 photo / illustration

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The Grotto of the Redemption, Way of the Cross Arch detail, West Bend, Iowa (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• B-59 said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grotto_of_the_Redemption www.westbendgrotto.com/

• B-59 said:

  www.flickr.com/photos/lindsaysmontgomery/8399401515/

Lough Erne shrine

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 1 older comment, and then…
• Rory Sherlock said:

  Some information here: www.culturalheritageireland.ie/index.php/the-a-z-of-irish...

• B-59 said:

  It is now in National Museum of Ireland www.facebook.com/nationalmuseumofireland/photos/two-tomb-... (S. also photo in www.meisterdrucke.com/kunstdrucke/Celtic/156894/Zwei-Grab...) The story see fermanaghastoryin100objects.wordpress.com/tag/lough-erne/

• beachcomber australia said:

  1892 contemporary description of the fisherman's catch, and exactly where on Lower Lough Erne (near Tully Castle) - www.jstor.org/stable/20503893?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents (scroll down)

• beachcomber australia said:

  Sometimes Flickr is amazing. Via Internet Archive Book Images View book online - archive.org/stream/muiredachabbotof00maca/muiredachabboto...

• oaktree_brian_1976 said:

  cheap American copy here in the Met, New York. www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/463140

Up the back of the book or Domnach Airgid - Sunday Silver?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 3 older comments, and then…
• beachcomber australia said:

  A Bible ?

• Sharon Corbet said:

  Apparently it means "Silver Church" and is a book shrine to be found across from Library Towers in the National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology. (It has a wiki page too.) It contained a copy of the Vulgate Version of the Gospels. It was associated with Clogher/Clones.

• Wendy: said:

  some great old lettering and pattens

• Foxglove said:

  and has led me to peruse the workings of Jerome of Stridon, ah the things we can learn over the 11o'c coffee & biccie break

• Bernard Healy said:

  I've never really thought about this before, but it's interesting that this kind of book shrine seems to be a primarily Irish phenomenon. I've seen all kinds of decorative manuscripts - religious and secular - in museums throughout Europe, but for some reason this style of container for books seems to be particularly Irish, as is the particular emphasis placed on the devotion to books associated with particular saints. Relics of saints and reverence shown to items used by saints is a common part of the European Christian tradition, but the devotion around the books (and also bells) of saints, and their preservation in this kind of shrine is especially Irish. I'd love to learn more about why this might be.