Soldiers Asleep at the Empty Tomb
detail from Scenes from the Resurrection of Christ

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

1897 Three-light window with the figure of the risen Christ in glory above the empty tomb with sleeping soldiers below. In the lower left-hand light Peter and John visit the empty tomb, and in the lower right-hand light the three Marys are greeted by two angels. technique: stained glass firm/studio: C.E. Kempe Church of St Cybi, Holyhead, Anglesey east wall of the chancel Given in memory of William Watson (died 1883), chairman and managing director of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Co.  (ObjectID=1971 ImageID=4556) Original File Name=_MG_7705.jpg

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• angels 
• frightened and/or sleeping soldiers at the tomb of Christ  [Matthew 28:4]
• Peter and/or John make sure that the tomb of Christ is empty  [Luke 24:12; John 20:4-8]
• 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 risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 

Philip Collins, The Corpus of Kempe Stained Glass in the UK and Ireland (Kempe Trust, 2000), p. 321.

Richard Haslam, Julian Orbach and Adam Voelcker, The Buildings of Wales: Gwynedd (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009), p. 129.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales