Image: FlightIntoEgypt FairfordChurch Gloucestershire

Description: Stained glass window, St Mary's Church, Fairford, Gloucestershire. Flight into Egypt; Assumption of the Virgin Mary; Jesus disputing with the Doctors in the Temple. God warned Joseph to take the young Child and his Mother to fly into Egypt from the Destruction of Herod. There is the Asse that carryed them. There is likewise Mary with the Babe in her Lap, and Joseph gathering the Fruit from the Tree to feed them in the Wilderness, the Branches being so high that he could not reach, an Angel in the Tree bowed them down to him. There is the Destruction of the Male Children. Herod destroyed all the Male Children that were two Years old and under. There is the Assumption of our Virgin Mary, and the Antient of Days over it. There is Joseph and Mary seeking our Saviour after the Feast at Jerusalem, and could not find him. At last they found him disputing with the Doctors in the Temple, both hearing and asking them Questions (described by Neale, John Mason, (ed.) Illustrations of Monumental Brasses, No.VI, Cambridge Camden Society, Cambridge, 1846, pp.115-132[1])
Title: FlightIntoEgypt FairfordChurch Gloucestershire
Credit: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4109383
Author: Photo by Julian P Guffogg
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