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Christ Our Light

$25.00

A spiritual journey through 15 Rembrandt etchings, presented with the relevant Gospel passage. Rembrandt is one of the world’s greatest artists and every generation discovers new treasures in contemplating his work. This is especially true of his religious art. His paintings and etchings inspired by biblical subjects were made for prayer. They touch the depths of human feelings and have never lost their universal appeal.

A spiritual journey through 15 Rembrandt etchings, presented with the relevant Gospel passage. Rembrandt is one of the world’s greatest artists and every generation discovers new treasures in contemplating his work. This is especially true of his religious art. His paintings and etchings inspired by biblical subjects were made for prayer. They touch the depths of human feelings and have never lost their universal appeal.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Anne Margot Boyd is an Australian author and editor, who in 1955 joined the Dominican contemplative community at Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight in England. She was one of the founders of Carisbrooke Priory Press, which flourished in the 1960s. In 1968 she moved to Cambridge, where she worked for thirteen years in the publishing division of Cambridge University Press. In the 1980s she edited the Geoffrey Chapman list of Catholic theology, liturgy and catechetics for Cassell Publishers in London. In 1989 she returned to Australia, where she continued freelance editing and writing. In 2007 she completed a research MA on medieval paintings of St Catherine of Siena. In 2009 she was founding editor of Ferntree Gully News, an award-winning, volunteer-run local newspaper, for whom she continues to write. In 2025 the newly founded Growth Without Greed imprint published her memoir To the Paradise Garden, Letters from Carisbrooke Priory.

Also by Anne Margot Boyd

  • The Monks of Durham, Life in a Fifteenth-Century Monastery (1975)

  • Catherine of Sienna, The Mystical Voice (2009)

  • Life in a Medieval Monastery, The Monks of Durham Cathedral (2013)

  • To the Paradise Garden, Letters from Carisbrooke (2025)