Dorcas Clothing the Poor
detail from The Good Shepherd with Women Performing Acts of Mercy

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Detail from the left hand light. larger image

about 1880 Three-light window depicting the Good Shepherd and women doing acts of mercy, including Dorcas. technique: stained glass size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Ward & Hughes patron: De Broke (family) Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire south wall of the chancel Dedication: To the glory of God and in memory of Margaret Willoughby De Broke by her sisters Harriet and Emma and brother William.  (ObjectID=1001 ImageID=1747) Original File Name=_MG_5635.jpg

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• Christ as Good Shepherd  [John 10:1-18]
• the (seven) Acts of Mercy - from Matthew 25  [Matthew 25:31-46]
• works of charity of Tabitha: she makes clothes for the poor  [Acts 9:36]

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

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 19.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales