St Cecilia with St Anna Teaching the Virgin Mary to Read

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1921 Single-light window with two angels holding text. Panel below; Christ with grouped figures - nurse, naval officer etc. with two kneeling. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Burlison & Grylls Church of St Mary, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire north wall of chancel Texts: 'Her children arise up and call her blessed' (Proverbs 31:28); 'Come unto me all ye that travail and are heavy laden and I will give you rest' (Matthew 11:28). Given in memory of Cecil Jones RWF and Evan Jones RN, the sons of Sir Evan Davies Jones Bt., killed 1918, and of their mother Cecilia, died 1913. For the group in the bottom panel compare the work of Nicholas Evans in his Entombed - With Jesus in the Midst.  (ObjectID=255 ImageID=725) Original File Name=_MG_1546.jpg

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• Anna teaching Mary to read 
• Christ as adult - not in biblical context 
• St Cecilia of Rome, virgin martyr 
• the soldier; the soldier's life 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 198.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 186.

Painton Cowen, A Guide to Stained Glass in Britain (London: Michael Joseph, 1985), p. 222.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales