Giving Shelter to a Stranger
detail from Christ in Majesty with Acts of Mercy

Photo © Peter Jones Lower right-hand panel. larger image

1866 Three-light window illustrating acts of mercy (with reference to Matthew chapter 25) flanking Christ seated in majesty in the central light. Angels holding instruments of the Passion above in the tracery lights. technique: stained glass firm/studio: Clayton & Bell Church of St Stephen, Bodfari, Denbighshire east wall of the chancel Given by Miss Mesham in memory of Mrs Barrett. Although some sources suggest a date of 1866 for the gift, stylistically the glass is closer to the work of the firm in the 1870s and after.  (ObjectID=4444 ImageID=8375) Original File Name=P7211518.jpeg

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• 'Salvator Mundi', making a blessing gesture; an orb in his hand or at his feet 
• clothing the naked - one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy  [Matthew 25:31-46]
• feeding the hungry - one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy  [Matthew 25:31-46]
• giving the thirsty to drink, 'sitiens potatur' - one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy  [Matthew 25:31-46]
• sheltering strangers, 'hospes colligitur' - one of the (seven) Acts of Mercy  [Matthew 25:31-46]

J. L. Roberts, St Stephen's Bodfari and parish throughout the ages 500 BC to 1930 AD (c. 1978).

Edward Hubbard, The Buildings of Wales: Clwyd (Harmondsworth/Cardiff: Penguin/University of Wales Press, 1986), p. 328.

Malcolm Seaborne, Victorian and Later Stained Glass Windows in Flintshire Churches (Mold: 1996), p. 7.

D. R. Thomas, The History of the Diocese of St Asaph (Oswestry: Caxton Press, 1908-1913), vol. II, p. 4.

Photo © Peter Jones