Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me

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1862 Sculpture of two daughters of Sir and Lady Hugh Williams, holding a large upturned shell, used as the bowl of the font. medium: stone technique: carved size: 103 cm (height) artist: Peter Hollins Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire west end of the north aisle Inscriptions around the rim: 'Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not.' 'St Matthew XIX Pennod XIV Adnod. Cadewch i blant bychain. Ac na waherddwch iddynt ddyfod at taf fi. Cannys eiddo y cyfryw rai yw thyrnas nefoedd'. 'St Matthew XVIII Chapter X Verse. In heaven their angels do always behold the face of my father which is in heaven'.  (ObjectID=989 ImageID=1727) Original File Name=_MG_5585.jpg

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• Christ blessing children brought by their mothers  [Matthew 19:13-15; Mark 10:13-16; Luke 18:15-17]

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 324.

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