Apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes to Bernadette
Photo © Martin Crampin, Imaging the Bible in Wales
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about 1945
Single-light window. Virgin Mary with rosary against a background of a grotto, with Bernadette at the left of the foreground, holding a lighted taper. Clogs, sticks, roses and stream on the ground beside Bernadette.
size: 68 cm (width)firm/studio: Harry Clarke Stained Glass LtdChurch of the Holy Name, Fishguard, Pembrokeshirewestern end of the nave, opposite the entrance.
Inscription: 'Pray for the donor, M A Mac Donald'.
Perhaps the work of William Dowling. A very similar design made as a two-light window may be found at The Church of the Assumption, Wexford. (ObjectID=84 ImageID=29) Original File Name=_MG_1501.jpgRecord added by Martin Crampin. Last updated on 08-10-2020
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Show more subjectsSarah Boss, 'Biblical images of Mary in the visual tradition of Wales' (London: SPCK, 2008), p. 172.
ReferencesThomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach and Robert Scourfield, The Buildings of Wales: Pembrokeshire (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 186.
Click to show suggested citation for this recordMartin Crampin (ed.), Stained Glass in Wales Catalogue, University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth, 2020.
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