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St. John’s Cathedral in Spokane will host Volume VI of the St. John’s Bible Heritage Edition, a rare handwritten and illuminated masterpiece, for four months starting in September

In 1998, the monks at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, chose to bring in the new millennium by imagining the 2,000 year old (or more) words of Scripture in a way that would capture the zeitgeist of modern times without losing the concept of anno Domini. The result is The Saint John’s Bible, an illuminated bible reminiscent of the ancient texts that were transcribed across abbeys throughout Europe during the last millennium. Now that Bible is on display in Spokane.