Pentecost
detail from Scenes from the New Testament

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about 1865 Three-light window with scenes of the life of Christ including the Nativity, Crucifixion and Ascension in the centre light. Scenes in the left-hand light are Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane and the Resurrection, and in the right-hand light figures mourn the dead Christ beneath the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. technique: stained glass firm/studio: probably Michael and Arthur O'Connor Church of St Mary, Y Felinheli, Gwynedd east wall of the chancel Mary, as patron of the church, is prominent among the group of disciples in the scene of the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.  (ObjectID=5270 ImageID=10294) Original File Name=P1030927.JPG

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• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• crucified Christ with Mary, John, and Mary Magdalene  [Matthew 27:45-58; Mark 15:33-45; Luke 23:44-52; John 19:25-38]
• Gethsemane, Mount of Olives, 'Oelberg': Christ's prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane during the night  [Matthew 26:37-45; Mark 14:33-41; Luke 22:40-46]
• Mary, Joseph and the new-born Christ (Nativity)  [Luke 2:1-7]
• the Ascension  [Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11]
• the mourning over the dead Christ 

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 369.

Photo © Peter Jones