Christ blessing the children
detail from Salvator Mundi

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Detail showing the lower panel. larger image

1919 Single-light window. The top panel shows Christ with crown of thorns, holding a cross, and with a chalice at his feet, with Christ blessing children in a panel below. technique: stained glass size: 38 cm (width) firm/studio: Morris & Co. designer (after): Edward Coley Burne-Jones Church of St Mary, Betws-y-coed, Conwy west wall of the north aisle One of a pair with The Sower, west wall of the south aisle. The same cartoon used at St Martin, Haverfordwest. By 1916 the work of Morris & Co., with John Henry Dearle as chief designer, was repetitive, tending to reuse cartoons, especially those by Burne-Jones. There is no reference to this window in A. Charles Sewter's authoritative The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle (Yale UP 1974). The Salvator Mundi figure is not immediately recognizable from the illustrations of Burne-Jones' work in that volume. The panel depicts the ever-popular "Suffer the little children to come unto me" of Mark 10:14. The Salvator Mundi figure clings to a rugged cross, and the chalice at the foot is a reference to Christ's prayer in Gethsemane, that the cup of suffering would pass from Him, but that nonetheless it was the Father's will that must be done. (Luke 22:42).  (ObjectID=70 ImageID=125) Original File Name=_MG_1090.jpg

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• Christ as adult - not in biblical context 
• Christ blessing children brought by their mothers  [Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17]
• living, or flowering cross - symbols of Christ 

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales