Having finished at the Cathedral, the next thing
on the agenda was a toilet! This was duly located within the
St Mungo Museum of
Religious Life and Art. The visit to the toilet completed,
we decided to explore a little further into the museum. We
found, amongst other things... more stained glass!
David
Elijah
Enoch: An Old Testament
prophet and patriarch; he was the son of Jared and
father of Methuselah.
Moses : The patriarch who transmitted
the Torah or Law to the Israelites and led them out of
bondage in Egypt.
The four panels above were designed by Sir Edward
Burne-Jones, and made by William Morris & Co for
Woodlands Parish Church in Glasgow.
The Elijah panel was made in 1900, the others in 1902.
St Barbara, about 1520, France, Stone
St Barbara is said to have lived in the Middle East in the
third century. Her father locked her in a tower to protect
her from the outside world. When she refused to marry a
non-Christian, her father chopped her head off.
As a heavenly punishment, he was hit by a bolt of
lightning. She is the Patron Saint of miners and people
who work with explosives.
St Barbara holds a palm branch to show she died for her
faith.
One of a series of twenty-two panels depicting the 'Fruit
and Flowers of the Bible',
made for St Ninian's Wynd Church, Glasgow.
This panel depicts roses: "The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall
rejoice, and blossom as the rose' (Isaiah 35.1).
An unknown saint, who holds a book in his left hand and
gives the gesture of blessing with his right hand.
The window is English, of the Norwich School, and dates
from the 14th century.
An Egyptian mummy Mask made of painted and gilded
cartonnage (linen stiffened with plaster).
It dates from about 500 BCE.
Adoration of the Magi, 1400-1500
Nottingham, England. Alabaster
The Betrayal, 1400-1500
Nottingham, England. Alabaster
The Ascension, about 1400
Nottingham, England. Alabaster
Satoshi wanted to experience the Glasgow
Underground Railway. This is a loop of 15 stations. It takes
24 minutes to go around the whole loop. We then had a take
away dinner at the St Enoch Shopping Centre. This includes
the largest area covered by a glass roof in Europe.