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St. Dunstan

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Catholic monk who created one of the earliest verifiable self-portraits around 950 CE, showing himself kneeling before Christ.

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"St. Dunstan self-portrait is included in his classbook, a 10th-century English manuscript that collected prayers, hymns, and study texts. On the page with a prayer to the Cross, he shows himself kneeling before Christ beneath the inscription, 'Dunstanum memet clemens rogo, Christe, tuere' ('Merciful"
"St. Dunstan self-portrait is included in his classbook, a 10th-century English manuscript that collected prayers, hymns, and study texts. On the page with a prayer to the Cross, he shows himself kneeling before Christ beneath the inscription, "Dunstanum memet clemens rogo, Christe, tuere" ("Merciful"
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