Love
detail from The Gifts of the Holy Spirit

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin Detail of the central light. larger image

about 1900 Three-light window featuring biblical texts depicting seated female figures with children, under the headings "Gentleness' 'Love' 'Patience'. Most of the faces are clearly family portraits. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Ward & Hughes Church of All Saints, Oystermouth, Swansea south wall of south aisle Texts: 'If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them' (John 13:17); 'The servant of the Lord must be gentle unto all men' (2 Timothy 2:24); 'The greatest of these is charity' (1 Corinthians 13:13); 'Let us run with patience the race that is set before us' (Hebrews 12:1) Given in memory of Dame Catherine Prudence (d. June 29 1900), wife of Sir John J. Jenkins MP.  (ObjectID=1828 ImageID=4017) Original File Name=Oystermouth_DSC3175.jpg

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• Charity - one of the Three Theological Virtues 
• reading the Bible or other religious books 

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass from Welsh Churches (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2014), p. 155.

Geoffrey R. Orrin and F.G. Cowley, A History of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (1990), p. 86.

© University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, photo Martin Crampin