Pentecost Season · Pentecost Sunday: Day Mass · Year B
Sequence: Veni Sancte Spiritus
May 16, 2027
From a twelfth-century service book: the golden dove of the Spirit plunges down out of the arc of heaven into a great painted letter V, the first letter of the Pentecost hymn.Come, Holy Spirit, come: the sequence is a prayer for the Spirit to descend, and the scribe drew the descent into the first letter of the word Come.Unknown illuminatorAn unnamed twelfth-century illuminator who filled the letter with knotted gold vines and small white creatures.J. Paul Getty Museum, Los AngelesThe J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles