The Virgin Mary and the Risen Christ

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about 1898-1900 Two-light window. An angel holds a banner over the figures: 'I am the Resurrection'. technique: stained glass firm/studio: A. L. Moore & Son Church of St David, Carreg-wen, Pembrokeshire south wall of the chancel Standing figure of Mary, holding her emblem the lily, indicates with her left hand the standing figure of the (?) resurrected Christ. Is this window a reference to the ancient belief (not recorded in the gospels) that Christ's first risen appearance was to his mother?  (ObjectID=379 ImageID=290) Original File Name=_MG_0400.jpg

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• the risen Christ (with wounds, but without crown of thorns), sometimes holding the cross or a banner 
• upright figures of Mary without the Christ-child 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 278.

Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales