Religious ceramic plate made by the Benedictine monks of Prinknash Abbey in Cranham ,Gloucestershire, England, celebrating the 15th centenary of the birth of St. Benedict Of Nursia, Patriarch of Western monasticism and patron of Europe.
Scene: Having given Benedict the monastic habit (shown as green) Romanus (in maroon habit) a monk of St Blasé on mount Taleo lowers food in a basket to his disciple who sits and reads in the cave where he spent 3 years as a hermit before founding the abbeys of Subiaco and Montecassino.
17cm diameter.