Receiving the Crown of Life

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about 1946 Two-light window with a soldier kneeling before Christ, who holds a crown. technique: stained glass Church of the Holy Trinity, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire south wall of the nave Text: 'Be thou faithful unto death I will give thee a crown of Life' (Revelation 2:10). The correspondence regarding the commissioning of the window specifically mentions the related imagery of 2 Esdras 2:42–8). The window was given in memory of Eric Spencer Jones, who had been a student at Keble College, Oxford, and was preparing for ordination. He was killed in action 13 January 1945, and the faculty for the window is dated November 1945.  (ObjectID=450 ImageID=432) Original File Name=_MG_0513.jpg

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• adult Christ receiving the dead into heaven 
• receiving prize or crown of honours 

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales