The Echternach Gospels were probably taken by St. Willibrord, a Northumbrian missionary, to his newly founded Echternach Abbey in Luxembourg, from which they are named.
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For example, in the sixth century St. Columba founded many monasteries in Europe with an emphasis on manuscript production.
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