Christ as the Good Shepherd, the Redeemer, the Light of the World and as King

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1913 Four-light window with the standing figure of Christ in four different guises, with scenes below: Christ finding the lost sheep caught in thorns, Christ as Good Shepherd surrounded by sheep, Christ as the Sower, and angels gathering the harvest with sickles. technique: stained glass firm/studio: James Powell & Sons Church of St Giles, Wrexham north wall of the north aisle Text: 'Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15). Given in memory of Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta, and Edward Meredith Jones, his wife Anne Maude, his son Meredith and brother Richard Meredith, by his three daughters: Annie, Fanny and Maude. Verses from Bishop Heber's hymn From Greenland's Icy Mountains are included in the window. The hymn was written in the Old Vicarage at Wrexham.  (ObjectID=2060 ImageID=4915) Original File Name=_MG_7213.jpg

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• an angel thrusts his sickle into the earth, and gathers the vine  [Revelation 14:14-19]
• Christ as Good Shepherd  [John 10:1-18]
• Christ as the sower - particular types of adult Christ - human occupations 
• Christ with chalice, and bread or Host 
• the lost sheep sought and found by the shepherd - parable of the good shepherd  [Matthew 18:12-14; Luke 15:4-7]

Malcolm Seaborne, St Giles' Parish Church Stained Glass (Wrexham: 1998).

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales