Christ Healing the Sick

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about 1880 The figures depicted illustrate some of the afflictions healed by Christ, e.g. paralysis and blindness. technique: stained glass size: 130 cm [approx] firm/studio: Clayton & Bell Church of St Mary, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire south wall behind the pulpit Typical of the early style of the firm Clayton and Bell. In memory of Daniel Saunders, Naval Surgeon, and given by the officers of HMS Conqueror and the Royal Marines Battalion, Japan 1865. Saunders was a member of a prominent local farming family in the nearby parish of Cilycwm. The window may however date from around 1880, according to The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion.  (ObjectID=6 ImageID=5) Original File Name=DSCN6125.JPG

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• a paralytic is let down through the roof of the house where Christ is preaching - miracles of Christ  [Matthew 9:1-8; Mark 2:2-12; Luke 5:17-26]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 292.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales