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Mary with a Sword Piercing her Heart
from Set of Windows Depicting Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

  Mary with a Sword Piercing her Heart    from    Set of Windows Depicting Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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1980s or 1990s

Set of ten cruciform windows with the Annunciation, the Holy Spirit depicted as a dove entering Mary's womb, the Coronation of the Virgin by Christ, the Visitation, the Virgin and child adored by the Magi, the Virgin Mary with angels, the Presentation of Christ-child in the Temple (the Virgin is shown with Simeon, who holds the infant Jesus, while Anna and perhaps Joseph are at the sides in the shadows), Mary with Joseph and the boy Jesus sawing wood, the Virgin with a sword piercing her heart.

size: 50 cm (width) [approx]

Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea
north wall stairs



 
Record added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 13-12-2011

 

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Martin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2011.
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  Mary with a Sword Piercing her Heart    from    Set of Windows Depicting Scenes from the Life of the Virgin

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales



 
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