'A Sword will Pierce Your Soul'
from Set of Windows with Symbols of the Virgin Mary

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales larger image

1973 Set of seven cruciform windows including images of a crown (at the apex), the sword piercing Mary's soul with the crown of thorns, a six-winged creature, and the dove with small branch in its beak (returning to Noah's Ark), also lilies and a rosary. Each of the six lower windows has symbols set beneath a crown. technique: stained glass size: 50 cm (width) [approx] artist: John Petts Church of the Blessed Sacrament, Gorseinon, Swansea north west wall These windows were commissioned along with the sculpture of the Virgin and Child, also by John Petts.  (ObjectID=3276 ImageID=1833) Original File Name=_MG_4419.jpg

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• aids for prayer: rosary 
• crown (symbol of sovereignty) 
• Mary's heart pierced by a sword  [Luke 2:35]

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 363.

Alison Smith, 'John Petts: Designer-Craftsman 1914-1991' The Journal of Stained Glass, vol. xix, no. 2 (1991–3), p. 227.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales