The Sower

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1919 Single-light window with Christ depicted as the sower and a scene showing Paul preaching in Athens in a lower panel. technique: stained glass size: 38 cm (width) firm/studio: Morris & Co. designer: Edward Coley Burne-Jones Church of St Mary, Betws-y-coed, Conwy west wall of the south aisle One of a pair of windows at the west end of the church with Salvator Mundi. The image of Christ as the sower is a late design (1897) by Burne-Jones. An effective juxtaposition. The Sower, shown here as Jesus, and Paul (identified conventionally as bald-headed) preaching at Areopagus in Athens before the altar of the unknown god (DEO IGNOTO on the column). Both images refer to the proclamation of the gospel, indiscriminately, to those who will receive it, and those who will not.  (ObjectID=69 ImageID=131) Original File Name=Betws_Sower_DSC1434.jpg

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• Christ as the sower - particular types of adult Christ - human occupations 
• Paul in front of the altar of the unknown god  [Acts 17:18-32]
• the sower - parable of Christ  [Matthew 13:3-9; Mark 4:3-9; Luke 8:5-8]

Larry J. Kreitzer, 'Images of the Apostle Paul in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Wales' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 238-9.

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 268.

Photo © Martin Crampin