September 15, 2011 – November 13, 2011 | U.S. Bank Gallery | Free Exhibition Beginning in 1996, the community of Saint John’s Abbey and University in Collegeville, Minnesota, began planning and working on The Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten, illuminated Bible to be commissioned by a Benedictine monastery in five hundred years. This exhibition showcases Letters and Revelation, the final volume in the work, and celebrates the completion of the creation phase of this monumental achievement, some 15 years in the making
by a team of 23 professional scribes, artists and assistants in a scriptorium in Wales