Tuesday 28 September, 7.30pm In the Beginning Was the Word: A Concert in Celebration of the Saint John’s Bible.
St Martin-in-the-Fields will host an evening of music, words and images and music celebrating the Saint John’s Bible, the first handwritten illuminated Bible commissioned since the advent of the printing press. Described by Smithsonian Magazine as ‘one of the most extraordinary undertakings of our time’ the Bible is being created by a team of artists and scribes under the artistic direction of Donald Jackson. St Martin-in-the-Fields has on display the only Heritage Edition of the Saint John’s Bible in UK.The Saint John’s Bible is a union of an ancient Benedictine tradition with the