Garan Santicola

Garan Santicola is a freelance writer who lives in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. His Beauty & Truth column on the arts has won multiple National Catholic Media awards, and he is currently working on his first novel. Follow on X @GSanticola.

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Scenes of David as shepherd defending his flock from a lion and a bear at the base of the Tickhill Psalter’s Tree of Jesse. Credit: Courtesy of The Morgan Library & Museum

PHOTOS: Tickhill Psalter’s Jesse Tree shines in Morgan Library’s Advent exhibit

Nov 30, 2025 / 08:00 am

A full-page Jesse Tree introduces the Psalms in the Tickhill Psalter, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript on view through Advent and Christmas in New York City.