Each of the 140 schools which helped to create a historic Children’s Codex received a free copy of the leather-bound book in April.
A further 1,000 copies of the codex – a collection of Bible stories bound into one book – have been printed and will go on sale around Sunderland and Jarrow.
The Children’s Codex – a Bible Society project – was created to mark 1,300 years since monks at Wearmouth-Jarrow monastery, in Sunderland, transcribed and illustrated three Latin Bibles and took one to Rome as a gift for the Pope.
Illustrations
All 118 primary, secondary, nursery and special schools in Sunderland and 32 schools in South Tyneside contributed to the Children’s Codex. They were each given a passage and children wrote versions of the stories and created their own illustrations. In early April, copies were given out at a special service at St Peter’s in Monkwearmouth.
