Elijah and the Widow's Son
detail from Scenes from the Life of Elijah

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

about 1882 Two single-light windows. Elijah fed by ravens and the sacrifice on Mount Carmel, and Elijah raising the Shunamite widow's son. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Heaton, Butler & Bayne Church of St Padarn, Llanbadarn Fawr, Ceredigion north wall of north transept Texts: 'The ravens brought him flesh & bread' (top panel); 'The Lord He is God' (bottom panel); 'Give me thy son' (top panel) and 'Thy son liveth' (bottom panel).  (ObjectID=967 ImageID=3695) Original File Name=_MG_4345.jpg

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• as Elijah prays, God sends fire which burns up not only his sacrifice but also the altar itself; the people fall prostrate - story of Elijah - Elijah defies the priests of Baal  [1 Kings 18:36-39]
• Elijah fed by the raven(s): while the prophet is living by the brook, ravens bring him food - story of Elijah  [1 Kings 17:4-6]
• Elijah hands the revived boy over to his mother, the widow of Zarephath  [1 Kings 17:23-24]
• Elijah takes the child of the widow of Zarephath and carries him upstairs  [1 Kings 17:19]

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 496.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales