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Dancing Monk Icons

Abbey of the Arts commissioned artist Marcy Hall of Rabbit Room Arts to create 52 stunning icons depicting various monks, mystics, and saints. 14 of these are specifically Irish saints.

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Clare of Assisi
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Clare of Assisi

“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become.”

Julian of Norwich
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Julian of Norwich

“The fullness of joy is to see God in everything.”
Abba Anthony
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Abba Anthony the Great

“Always have God before your eyes.”

Nicholas Black Elk
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Nicholas Black Elk

“I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the Spirit.”

Howard Thurman
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Howard Thurman

“There is something that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself.”

Benedict of Nursia
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Benedict of Nursia

“Let our hearts overflow with the inexpressible delight of love.”

Hildegard of Bingen
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Hildegard of Bingen

“Let my soul be greening.”

Thea Bowman
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Sister Thea Bowman

“I want to live until I die.”

Francis of Assisi
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Francis of Assisi

“The world is my monastery.”
Thomas Merton
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Thomas Merton

“Join in the joy of the cosmic dance.”
Prophet Miriam
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Prophet Miriam

“All of the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.”
King David
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King David

“David danced before God with all of his might.”
Mary, Mother of God
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Mary, Mother of God

“My soul proclaims the greatness of our God, my spirit rejoices in God.”
Amma Syncletica
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Amma Syncletica

“We must kindle the divine fire within ourselves.”
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day

“Heaven is a banquet and life is a banquet too.”
John of the Cross
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John of the Cross

“O night, thou was my guide.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke

“May what I do flow from me like a river.”
Teresa of Avila
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Teresa of Avila

“Allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and love.”
Angela of Foligno
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Angela of Foligno

“The world is pregnant with God.”

Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu

“We address God in the quiet of our hearts, in hymns and psalms, in dance and chant, with tears with pleas and rejoicing.”

St. Guinefort The Greyhond
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St Guinefort the Greyhound

“Eternal life will be a shared experience of awe, in which each creature, resplendently transfigured, will take its rightful place.”

Mechtild of Magdeburg
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Mechthild of Magdeberg

“God wants to lead you in the heavenly dance.”

Ignatius of Loyola
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Ignatius of Loyola

“Go set the world on fire.”

Meister Eckhart
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Meister Eckhart

“The light will overflow your soul and dance with radiance in your life.”

Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel​
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Archangels Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel

“God will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.”

Mary Magdalene
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Mary Magdalene

“Let life rise in you.”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.”

Sister Death
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Sister Death

“Keep death daily before your eyes.”

Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman

“God set the North Star in the heavens and meant I should be free.”

Martin de Porres
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Martin de Porres

“Everything could be a prayer if offered to God.”

Mary of Egypt
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Mary of Egypt

“The Mother of God helps me in everything and leads me by the hand.”

Marina / Marinos
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Marina/Marinos the Monk

“The one who saves a soul shall be as the one who created it.”

Margery Kempe
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Margery Kempe

“It is full merry in heaven.”

Sojourner Truth
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Sojourner Truth

“I have plowed and planted and gathered.”

Jesus of Nazereth
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Jesus of Nazareth

“Love with all your heart and all your soul.”

Simone Weil
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Simone Weil

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

Pachomius the Great
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Pachomius the Great

“These holy ones make their wings easy in the beauty of their deeds as monks.”

Irish Saints

brigid
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Brigid of Kildare

“Christ dwells in every creature.”
brendan
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Brendan the Navigator

“Help me to journey beyond the familiar and into the unknown.”
kevin
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Kevin of Glendalough

“He is linked to eternal life.” 
dearbhla
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Dearbhla of Belmullet

“She looked at the world as if for the first time.”
colman
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Colman of Kilmacduagh

“A robin sings of the beauty found in stones and thorns.”
sourney
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Sourney of Drumacoo

“Walking the rounds, footsteps bless the ground.” 
enda
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Enda of Inismor

“Seeking the way light, water, and stone can remind of elemental things.”
columcille
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Columcille of Iona

“Alone with none but you, my God, I journey on my way.”
ita
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Ita of Killeedy

“I thirst for divine love.”
ciaran
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Ciaran of Clonmacnoise

“Circle me God, keep fear without, keep joy within.”
gobnait
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Gobnait of Ballyvourney

“Go seek the place of your resurrection.”

patrick
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Patrick of Armagh

“Christ within me and all around me, in everyone I meet.”

st-muirgen-edited
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St. Muirgen of Lough Neagh

“They heard the celebration of angels beneath the waves.”

Melangell of Powys Icon
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Melangell of Powys

“Take the soft hare of your life into your arms.”