The Good Centurion

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about 1918 Single-light window with a standing military figure holding a lance. technique: stained glass firm/studio: probably Burlison & Grylls Church of St Ceitho, Llangeitho, Ceredigion north wall of the nave The window is given in memory of B.E.S. Davies, a captain in the eleventh South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action at Pilkem Ridge, 31 July 1917, aged 24. The face looks like a portrait of the man. The window is titled 'The Good Centurion' and above is the text from Paul's second letter to Timothy: 'I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course' (2 Timothy 4:7).  (ObjectID=6145ImageID=11305) Original File Name=Llangeitho_DSC7063-71A.jpg

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• St Longinus, centurion of Caesarea 
• the soldier; the soldier's life 

Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, (London: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 519.

Photo © Martin Crampin