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Christ Blessing Children Brought by their Mothers and with Mary and Martha

  Christ Blessing Children Brought by their Mothers and with Mary and Martha

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales

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about 1870

Three-light window. In the left-hand light Mary is shown seated listening to Christ under the text: 'Mary hath chosen that good part' (Luke 10:42), and is also depicted with Martha in the right-hand light under the text: 'Thy brother shall rise again' (John 11:23). Both flank the central light with a mother presenting her child to Christ, children in the foreground and disciples behind, with the text 'of such is the Kingdom of God' (Mark 10:14; Luke 18:16). Dove of the Holy Spirit descending above in a large quartrefoil.



Christ Church, Caernarfon, Gwynedd
west end of the church, now converted to an office space



 
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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