Experts think the Book of Kells was created on Iona in this manner in about A.D. 800 by monks devoted to the sixth-century Irish missionary St Columba, who is credited with spreading Christianity ...

Cosmic odometer' turns over on 2000. By Leyla Kokmen Denver Post Staff Writer. Jan. 3 - If Dionysius Exiguus had foreseen today's hype over the Year 2000, he might have started o ...

Sinai in the 6th century on the orders of the Byzantine emperor Justinian. Over time it became an important destination for Christian pilgrims. Monks have lived within its walls ever since ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library ... and other documents of interest to the monks. But it turns out that people recycled the pages of some of those manuscripts, erasing texts ...

Off the coast of County Kerry, two jagged islands rise out of the Atlantic Ocean – ruggedly beautiful with centuries of ...

In our lives, we are often like Goldilocks. We make it our life’s goal to be comfortable. We want everything to be just right ...

Lí Ban’s story dates from 6th century Ireland and has been ... The “Annals of the Four Masters’, compiled by Irish monks in the 17th century, tells of a wondrous happening in the year ...