Manchester’s Passion Art Trail is a unique Way of the Cross, conceived by its curator to make vivid the possibility of redemption amid the distractions of modern urban living
Among the Bibles in 400 languages in Manchester’s John Rylands Library is a 2 x 3 inch scrap of papyrus with Greek writing dating from AD 100-150. It is considered to be the oldest surviving piece of the New Testament and records snatches of Christ’s conversation with Pilate as recounted in the gospel of John. Isolated in its glass case in the Rylands Gallery, this precious fragment would be easy to miss without the little red and gold label reading “Passion Art”. Since the start of Lent, similar labels have sprung up in different parts of this Victorian Gothic cathedral to learning, fl
10 April 2014, The Tablet
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