Peter's Commission
detail from Scenes from the Life of St Peter

Photo © Martin Crampin larger image

1866 Three-light window. The scenes show (left to right) Christ calling Peter from his fishing boat, Christ commissioning Peter to 'Feed my lambs' and Christ with Peter walking on the sea. technique: stained glass firm/studio: William Wailes Church of St Peter, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire north wall of the north transept Given in memory of David Morris (died 1864), who was a longstanding MP of Carmarthen and Llanelli.  (ObjectID=4895 ImageID=9411) Original File Name=CarmarthenStPeter_DSC2470B.jpg

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• calling of Peter and Andrew; they are called away from their fishing-boat   [Matthew 4:18-20; Mark 1:16-18]
• mission of Peter ('Pasce oves meas')  [John 21:15-17]
• Peter steps out of the boat and tries to walk on the water towards Christ - story of Christ walking on the water  [Matthew 14:28-29]

Martin Crampin, Stained Glass at the Church of St Peter, Carmarthen (Aberystwyth: Sulien Books, 2018), pp. 12–13.

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 130.

Photo © Martin Crampin