Debbie Cameron#StainedGlassSunday
Sacred Spring #TamsinAbbott
Simon Knott3/3 Christ heals the sight of the blind, glass by Gordon Webster, 1968 in Dunblane Cathedral.
'Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes'
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2/3 Christ heals the sight of a blind man, by Rosemary Rutherford, 1960 at Bradfield St Lawrence, Essex. The story becomes an extended metaphor on the nature of light and enlightenment. #StainedGlassSunday
Kevin Wilbraham14th century representation of a peasant figure which was originally from the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral. The glass can be viewed in the Stained Glass Museum which is based at Ely Cathedral. πΈ My own. #StainedGlassSunday #elycathedral
'he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay'
A Flemish glass panel of c1600 now at Risby, Suffolk depicts Christ healing the sight of a blind man, the subject of today's Gospel. #StainedGlassSunday
3/3 St John the Baptist in more Edinburgh glass by Herbert Hendrie, but this time a short walk away at Greyfriars Kirk. The glass was made in 1942 for Tolbooth St John, and then when that church closed in the 1970s it was moved to Greyfriars. #StainedGlassSunday
Christ touches and heals the lepers, much to the anger of the religious authorities for contravening the purity laws. Glass by Herbert Hendrie, 1934, in Old St Paul's Episcopal church, Edinburgh. #StainedGlassSunday
St Columba, 6th Century Irish missionary to the Picts and the Scots, in glass by Douglas Strachan, 1922 in St Margaret of Scotland's chapel, Edinburgh.
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St Margaret of Scotland and St Helen, by Marjorie Kemp, 1938 in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh for #StainedGlassSunday.
The Ghost MonkMedieval stained glass crucifixion scene at Llanasa in Flintshire. Llanasa was one of the most important churches / monasteries in #NorthWales, holding the relics of the evangelist St Asa, but when they were moved to the 'new' cathedral of St Asaph, its glory days were over.
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