The Three Marys at the Empty Tomb with a Frightened Soldier
detail from The Resurrection with the Four Evangelists and Scenes from the Passion

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales larger image

1859 Five-light window depicting the four evangelists with Christ in Majesty at the top. Angel at the empty tomb with Peter, John and the three women, also fallen soldiers. Lower half of window depicts Jesus entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus with disciples outside the City, the Last Supper, Gethsemane and Christ carrying the cross. technique: stained glass size: 40 cm (width of each light) [approx] firm/studio: Michael and Arthur O'Connor Church of St Margaret, Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire east wall of the chancel Given as part of a set of chancel windows by Harriet and Emma Williams, the sisters of the founding patron, Lady Willoughby.  (ObjectID=1003 ImageID=1756) Original File Name=_MG_5628.jpg

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• carrying of the cross: Christ bearing the cross, alone or with the help of others  [Matthew 27:31-33; Mark 15:20-22; Luke 23:26-33; John 19:17]
• Christ, usually holding a banner, arises from the grave; often combined with sleeping and/or frightened soldiers 
• entry into Jerusalem: people spreading their clothes before Christ on the ass, and waving palm branches  [Matthew 21:1-11; Matthew 21:14-16; Mark 11:12-14; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19]
• frightened and/or sleeping soldiers at the tomb of Christ  [Matthew 28:4]
• 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]
• John, Peter and Mary Magdalene approaching the open tomb of Christ  [Luke 24:12; John 20:1-5]
• the empty tomb: angel(s) addressing the holy women - Resurrection of Christ  [Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:4-8; Matthew 28:2-7]
• the four evangelists together (author portraits) 
• the Last Supper  [Matthew 26:21-35; Mark 14:18-31; Luke 22:15-23; John 13:21-38]
• the risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 14.

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 104.

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

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales