Scenes from the New Testament with the Twelve Apostles

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales Tracery lights, including the Lamb and the book with the seven seals. larger image

1880 Six-light window showing each of the apostles (including Matthias) below three New Testament scenes: The Annunciation to the Shepherds, John the Baptist acknowledging Christ as the Lamb of God, and Paul preaching in Athens. technique: stained glass firm/studio: J. V. Rowlands & Co. Church of St Mary the Virgin, Denbigh, Denbighshire (liturgical) west end of the nave Texts below the main scenes: 'For, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people', 'Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.' 'Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.' Given in memory of Lewis Lewis (1818 or 1819-1876), rector of the parish, given by parishioners and friends.  (ObjectID=1102 ImageID=2056) Original File Name=_MG_5414.jpg

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• John the Baptist identifies Christ as the Lamb of God ('Ecce Agnus Dei')  [John 1:29; John 1:36]
• Paul in Athens: on the Areopagus he discusses with philosophers (in front of the temple of Mars)  [Acts 17:22-33]
• The annunciation of Christ's birth to the shepherds (and/or shepherdesses) at night; a host of singing angels in the air  [Luke 2:8-14]
• the twelve apostles (as a group), usually with books or scrolls (not in biblical context) 

Larry J. Kreitzer, 'Images of the Apostle Paul in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Wales' (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2010), pp. 239-40.

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 147.

D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. II, p. 24.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales