Christ's Feet are Anointed at the House of a Pharisee

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1938 Two-light window. The seated figure of Christ faces the kneeling Mary Magdalene in the right-hand light, the only other figure being the standing figure of the pharisee. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Pearce & Cutler Church of St Thomas, Glyndyfrdwy, Denbighshire west wall of the nave Signed 'Pearce & Cutler Birmingham'. Text: 'She hath done what she could' (Mark 14:8). In common with many depictions of the subject, the text does not relate precisely to the scene depicted. Given in memory of the wife of Ethel Frances Tottenham, who died in 1937.  (ObjectID=4159 ImageID=7783) Original File Name=Glyndyfrdwy_DSC8405.jpg

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• a woman washes Christ's feet with her tears, and wipes them with her hair  [Luke 7:37-39]

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 605.

Photo © Martin Crampin