Last year I posted twice about St Giles whose feast it is today. They can be read at St Giles and at St Giles by Thomas of Coloswar which considers a late medieval depiction of him from Hungary.
This year I am marking the day by reproducing this very fine later medieval English image of the patron saint of the church where I was baptised, and to whom I have retained a devotion.
St Giles.
Fourteenth century glass from Wells Cathedral
North choir clerestory.
Image: therosewindow.com
North choir clerestory.
Image: therosewindow.com
As I wrote in April about the adjacent image at Wells of St Richard of Chichester I obtained a copy of this figure of St Giles for his church in Pontefract. It would, I think, make a handsome design for a statue of him.
St Giles pray for us
There is a remarkable stained glass window version of "The Mass of St. Giles" by the Master of St Giles shown in your earlier post in St George's, Worcester.
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