Crucifixion with Soldiers and Evangelists

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1913 A two-light window with crucifixion scene above two lower panels showing Matthew and Mark writing their Gospels. At the crucifixion, the centurion makes his declaration 'Truly this was the Son of God.' He holds a standard 'SPQR' while other soldiers look on. technique: stained glass firm/studio: C.E. Kempe & Co Ltd Church of St Mary the Virgin, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire south wall of the nave Given in memory of William Moffat Douglas-Willan (Royal Horse Artillery) of Gwynford Abbey, Middlesex, by his daughter. SPQR stands for 'Senatus Populusque Romanus' - the Senate & People of Rome which was the official formula of the Imperial Government.  (ObjectID=264 ImageID=1945) Original File Name=_MG_2391.jpg

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• Crucified Christ with other persons  [Matthew 27:33-58; Mark 15:22-45; Luke 23:33-52; John 19:17-38]
• St. Mark the evangelist writing the Gospel, usually a (winged) lion present 
• St. Matthew writing the Gospel, usually the angel present, dictating or assisting him 
• the centurion confessing his belief in Christ; sometimes the soldiers do the same - the crucifixion of Christ: Christ's death on the cross  [Matthew 27:54; Mark 15:39; Luke 23:47]
• the soldier; the soldier's life 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 213.

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 330.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales