{"product_id":"celtic-cross-of-scriptures","title":"Historic Clonmacnoise Cross in Solid Gold - Recreation Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eWANT TO VIEW THIS CROSS IN SILVER? \u003ca href=\"\/es\/products\/sterling-silver-cross-of-scriptures-clonmacnoise\" title=\"Click here\"\u003eClick here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCeltic Cross of Scriptures, to be found at the ancient monastery of Clonmacnoise on the banks of the Shannon, is recreated in beautiful detail on the cross pendant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandcrafted in White and Yellow Gold\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeight: 1.46 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWidth: 0.63 inches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePendant is available with or without a chain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthentic replica of the Celtic cross of Clonmacnoise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHandmade and Hallmarked in Ireland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree Standard Shipping and 45-day money-back guarantee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou may also be interested in our sterling \u003ca href=\"\/es\/products\/sterling-silver-cross-of-scriptures-clonmacnoise\" title=\"silver cross of Scriptures\"\u003esilver cross of Scriptures\u003c\/a\u003e and our full range of \u003cstrong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/es\/collections\/replica-celtic-cross\" title=\"Replica Cross Collection\"\u003eReplica Cross Collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistory of this piece\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe city of the seven churches, Clonmacnoise, was founded in 548 AD and lasted a thousand years. Now it seems a quiet ruined abbey, but at its full flowering it was a bustling important centre, a university city on a major Irish highway, the River Shannon. Such a university city - and there were several in Ireland - was a centre of classical, as well as religious learning, of art, calligraphy, design, and of gold and silver craftsmanship. Kuno Meyer, the German Scholar who was professor of Irish at the University of Liverpool at the turn of this century, could write, \u003cem\u003efor once, at any rate, Ireland drew upon herself the attention of the whole world as the great seminary of Christian and classical learning.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA monastery was founded on the site in 548 AD by St. Ciaran, son of a Donegal father and a Co. Kerry mother. This grew and prospered and by 800 AD a Gaelic poet was writing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAilill the king is vanished,\u003cbr\u003e\nVanished Croghan's fort,\u003cbr\u003e\nKings to Clonmacnoise now,\u003cbr\u003e\nCome to pay their court little places taken,\u003cbr\u003e\nFirst by twos and threes,\u003cbr\u003e\nAre like Rome reborn, Peopled sanctuaries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e(Trans. Frank O'Connor in \u003cem\u003eKings, Lords and Commons\u003c\/em\u003e, New York, 1959)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was probably around 800 AD that the Cross of the Scriptures was carved and erected. It has elaborate carvings both of Scriptural and contemporary scenes as well as animals and birds. One panel on the East face shows an ecclesiastic and a warrior with a sword, and between them a staff with leaves or flowers. It is intriguing to think that this may depict St. Ciaran's staff, and that the panel may be showing a \u003cem\u003eswearing on the staff\u003c\/em\u003e, a custom which is known to have existed but the details of which are lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Last Judgement is shown at the center on the East face, and on the West face, the Crucifixion. There is a lovely touch at the bottom of the West shaft where there is a panel showing Our Lord's body in the tomb. Two snoozing soldiers are sitting on the tomb while in his mouth a small bird breaths life - symbol of his imminent Resurrection. 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