Luard Family Arms:
Per pale Sable and argent, a lion counterchanged, holding between the paws a mullet pierced, or; in chief two fleur-de-lys counterchanged of the field.
Luard Family Crest:
On a wreath of the colours, a demi-lion Sable charged with a fleur-de-lys and holding between the paws an estoile, both or.
Luard means
"little wolf"
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The first Luard, a
Huguenot, Abraham LUARD,
born at Caen in 1635,
married his first wife Marie LeMESEIER in 1663, and his 2nd wife Jeanne BONNEFOY
in 1668. The Luards came to England in 1685, at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Zachariah
Bourryau LUARD, of Blyborough, Lincs (which he purchased from the family of Southcote in 1747),
was a wealthy West Indian merchant, who possessed estates in Granada, and St
Kitts. He married a woman by the last name of SPOONER and
died in 1752. Zachariah was the first Luard of Blyborough Hall. |
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St. Alkmond is in the little Hamlet of Blyborough which has been
the Luard Family home since the 1747.
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St
Alkmond |
The Church, dedicated to the Northumbrian
Saint Alkmund, was almost rebuilt
last century, but there is still old work remaining in the tiny tower, the west wall, and the 13th century chancel arch.
The nave arcade (its capitals carved with stiff leaves) is also 13th century, and was opened out to a new aisle after being built up.
There are three big medieval niches adorned with heads, an old font with
flowers and leaves at its base, and a Crucifixion (on the rood-beam) carved by Flemish craftsmen six centuries ago.
Lying on the windowsill are fragments found in the restoration - the head of a wimpled woman, a crude figure with outspread hands, stones shaped like
Norman soldiers, and some red tiles.
On his tomb in the chapel, is the stone figure of 15th century priest Robert Conyng, his features worn by time.
One of the
stained glass windows is in memory of two Luard brothers who fought in the Penninsular War and at
Waterloo. A tablet tells of four of their decendents who fell in the First World War.
Those
two brothers were Lieutenant John Luard of the 16th Light Dragoons, and
Captain George Luard of the 18th Hussars. It has been said that
there was not an instance throughout the Army of two brothers in the field
escaping death at Waterloo, but somehow John and George did just that.
Near a 200 year old Yew in the churchyard is a memorial to "all who gave their lives for this country and
freedom."
Blyborough
-- Hall, Church, and rectory -- are close companions here in tranquil setting.
There are many stately trees all around, and the long avenue leading to the Hall is
lined with splendid oaks.
The
Luard family made its monies from Sugar Plantations in the West Indies,
specifically in St. Kitt's.
Captain Luard's father was
a well respected Warwick physician.
Peter Francis Luard, M.D. , was the second son of
Peter John Luard, of Blyborough Hall, Lincolnshire, Esq., by his wife Louisa, daughter of Charles
Daldiac, Esq., of Hungeford Park, and was born 16th September 1786. He received his medical education at Edinburgh, where he graduated doctor of medicine 24th June, 1808
(D.M.I. de Ebriosrum malis). He was admitted a Licentiate of the
College of Physicians 1st April, 1822, and settled at Warwick, where he
was much and deservedly respected.
-- From Roll of the Royal College of Physicians
1878
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One of Captain Luard's
contemporaries, Robert Bunaby, recognized Dr. Luard.
"The Engineers are a set of real good fellows.
Of them all I like Parsons and Luard the best, the latter is a son of an old Leamington
physician, whom I dare say Mamma remembers."
-- 13 October 1859, Robert
Burnaby |
For the last
few years of his life, Dr. Luard retired to Florence with his wife,
chiefly for the sake of his health.
Sadly, Mary Luard's health
failed first.
MARY MAGDALEN LUARD/
ENGLAND/ Luard/ Maria Maddalena/ /
Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 25 Novembre/ 1857/ Anni 68/ 625/ Mary
Magdalen Luard, d'Angleterre/ Lady Mary Magdalen Luard/ GL23777/1
N° 243, Burial 28/11, Rev Robbins, wife of Peter Francis Luard M.D;
-- Information from
the
English Cemetery at Florence |

‘to poor Mrs Luards funeral at 11 (at
Cemetery) who died on Wednesday night [B---?], self, March and the
Doctor (Luard) the only persons [allowed?] to attend.’
-- 28 Nov 1857, From
the
Diary of
Rev. Maquay of Florence |
Captain Luard's sister, Frances, left Gloustershire
and came to be with her father in Florence.
Sadly, one month later...
PETER FRANCIS LUARD/
ENGLAND/ Luard/ Pier Francesco/ /
Inghilterra/ Firenze/ 26 Dicembre/ 1857/ Anni 71/ 629/ Luard,
Peter Francis, Angleterre/ GL23777/1 N° 246, Burial 28/12, Rev
O'Neill -- From the
English
Cemetery at Florence |

‘Doctor Luard died last night after eating
his dinner comfortably with his daughter and thus surviving his
wife exactly one month.’
-- 26 Dec 1857, From
the
Diary of
Rev. Maquay of Florence |
Doctor Luard's Headstone
reads.
SACRED TO THE
MEMORY OF PETER FRANCIS LUARD M.D./ SECOND SON OF . . . JOHN LUARD
ESQ/ OF BLYBOROUGH LINCOLNSHIRE// WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 5
DECEMBER 1851/ IN THE 72 YEAR OF HIS AGE. TO ME TO DIE IS GAIN/ .
. PHIL. . ./
-- From the
English
Cemetery at Florence |

The Children
of
Peter Francis LUARD, M.D.,
and wife
Mary
Magdalene MORGAN

ID# |
Name |
Spouse(s) |
Life
Span |
10 |
Colonel
Peter
William Luard
Madras Army |
Emma
Anne HODSON
Emelia Frederica CROMMELIN |
1817
- 1876 |
18 |
Anne
Louisa Luard |
-- |
1819-
1827 |
13 |
Colonel
George Francis Luard |
Jane
HAMILTON |
1820
- |
19 |
Lucy
Luard |
1st
cousin
Reverend Arthur
Charles LUARD |
1822
- 1916 |
21 |
Mary
Dormer Luard |
Capt
Joseph STIRLING, RN |
1824
- ? |
15 |
Captain
Henry Reynolds Luard, Royal Engineers |
Caroline
Mary LEGGATT |
1828 -
1870 |
17 |
Lieutenant
Phillip Edward Luard, Royal Navy |
--
|
1832
- 1869 |
Generation_I |
#1 |
Captain Peter
John LUARD, of Blyborough, 4th Dragoons |
Married: |
1783-4 |
To: |
#2 Louisa
DALBIAC,
daughter of Charles DALBIAC, of Hungerford Park,
1st wife Susanne De VISME |
Died: |
23 May,
1830, having had issue . . . |
|
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Generation_II |
#3: |
Peter
Francis LUARD, MD |
Born: |
16 Sept 1786 |
Married: |
1816 |
To: |
#4
Mary
Magdalene MORGAN(d 1857),
daughter of William MORGAN |
Died: |
1857, having had issue |
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Generation
III |
#10
back
to top |
Peter
William LUARD, Col Bengal Staff Corps, late 55th Native Infantry.
Ensign, 13 Dec. 1833; Lieut., 1 Dec 1836; Captain, 8 may 1845; Brevet Major, 28 Nov. 1854; Major, 27 Aug. 1858.
Service:
Major Luard served with the Army of the Sutlej in 1846. Commanded the 17th Punjab Infantry after the Mutiny of the 55th Native Infantry, with the Saugor Field Brigade under Brigadier Wheeler, in 1859. |
Born: |
11 July,
1817 |
Married
1st: |
27 April,
1839 |
To: |
#11 Emma
Anne HODSON (d 1841)
only daughter of Capt J. Hodson, HEICS
(Honorable East India Company Service)
and had issue |
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Gen
IV |
#29 |
Mary
Scott LUARD |
Born: |
12
Feb 1840 |
Died: |
8
April, 1841 |
|
|
|
Married
2nd: |
1845 |
To: |
#12
Emelia Frederica CROMMELIN,
only daughter of Major Crommelin, HEICS
(See below) |
Died: |
Dec 1876, having by her had issue, |
|
|
|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#30 |
Peter John
LUARD |
Born: |
1847 |
Married
1st: |
1876 |
To: |
#31
Winifred
Christian (d 1878),
and had issue |
|
|
|
|
|
Generation
V |
#53 |
Arden
Russell LUARD |
Born: |
1877 |
Died: |
1912 |
|
|
|
|
Married
2nd: |
1891 |
To: |
#32 Elinor Jane
Price |
Married
3rd: |
|
To: |
#33 Jessie Davies |
#34 |
Neville
Edwards LUARD |
Born: |
1848 |
Died: |
1909 |
#35 |
Amelia
Lucy LUARD |
Born: |
1845 |
Married: |
|
To: |
#36 Col
J. McNEALE, 8th Bengal Cav (d 1904) |
Died: |
4
Oct 1929, having had issue |
#37 |
Ida
LUARD |
Born: |
1858 |
Died: |
1934 |
|
|
|
Gen
III |
|
#13
back
to top |
George
Francis LUARD, Col Madras
Army |
Born: |
1820 |
Married: |
1843 |
To: |
#14 Jane
HAMILTON (b 26 May, 1829), 3rd dau of Lt George H. Hamilton,
HEICS, and had
issue |
|
|
|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#38 |
George
Anderson LUARD |
Born: |
24 June,
1853 |
Died: |
an infant |
#39 |
Arthur John
Hamilton LUARD, DSO, Col Norfolk
Regt
Cricketeer
|
Born: |
3 Sept
1861 |
Married: |
15 Oct
1890 |
To: |
#40 Rosa
Matilda PEEL, only daughter of late Edmund Yates Peel,
and had issue |
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|
|
Gen
V |
|
#54 |
Edmund Arthur
Peel LUARD, Capt
RA |
Born: |
31 July,
1891 |
Married: |
12 Sept 1918 (divorce
1929) |
To: |
#55 Gladys Francis Alice
Ford TICHBORNE, 2nd dau of Rev Canon Tichborne, MA, Rector of
Armagh, and has
issue |
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|
|
Generation_VI |
#59 |
Diana
Elizabeth LUARD |
Born: |
10 March,
1921 |
|
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|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#41 |
Mary Agnes
LUARD
|
Born: |
28 Sept 1847
|
Married: |
1869
|
To: |
#42 M J. Fortescue
Harrison, ICS, and had issue: two sons and one dau
|
#43 |
Louisa Jane
LUARD
|
Born:
|
23 May, 1849
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Married: |
24 Feb 1869
|
To: |
#44 Sir William
MacPHERSON (d 24 Nov 1909), Judge of the High Court,
Calcutta, son of General Duncan Macpherson, and had issue,
five sons and three daughters.
|
#45 |
Julia LUARD
|
Born:
|
4 June, 1851
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Died:
|
June, 1853
|
#46 |
Frances LUARD
|
Married: |
|
To: |
#47 Francis Henry
CUMBERLEGE
|
Died: |
26 Aug 1946,
leaving issue, one son
|
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|
|
Gen
III |
|
|
#15
back
to top |
Henry Reynolds LUARD, Capt
RE
|
Born: |
30 June, 1828
|
Married: |
8
October 1863, Victoria, Vancouver's Island |
To:
|
#16 Caroline Mary
LEGGATT (d 4
March, 1914), dau of George Leggatt
|
Died: |
1870, leaving issue
|
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|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#48 |
Henry
Arthur LUARD, Capt Northants Regt |
Born: |
1865 |
Married: |
|
To: |
#49
Adelaide
Isabel WATSON (d 30 Jan 1927) |
Died: |
1901,
leaving issue |
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|
|
Gen
V |
|
#56 |
Philip
Alan LUARD |
Born: |
1900 |
#57 |
Eleanor
Mary LUARD |
Born: |
1898 |
|
|
|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#50 |
Eleanor
Mary LUARD |
Born: |
1866 |
Died: |
unmarried
6 Feb 1951 |
|
|
|
Gen
III |
|
#17
back
to top |
Philip Edward LUARD, Lt RN
|
Born: |
23 April, 1832
|
Died: |
unmarried 1869
|
#18
back
to top |
Anne Louisa LUARD
|
Born: |
1819
|
Died: |
unmarried 1827
|
#19
back
to top |
Lucy LUARD
|
Born: |
1822
|
Married: |
|
To: |
#20 her first cousin, Rev
Arthur Charles LUARD
|
Died: |
6 Oct 1916 |
#21
back
to top |
Mary Dormer LUARD
|
Born: |
23 July, 1824
|
Married: |
1849
|
To: |
#22 Capt Joseph
STIRLING,
RN, and had issue, two sons and two daus.
|
|
|
Gen_II |
|
#5 |
Charles
Bourryau LUARD |
Born: |
16 April, 1785 |
Married: |
23 Aug
1821 |
To: |
#6 Henrietta
ARMYTAGE (d 2
Aug 1873), est dau and co-heir of John Armytage, of Northampton,
bro of Sir George Armytage, 4th Bt (see BURKE'S Peerage) |
Died: |
26 May, 1855,
leaving issue |
#7 |
George
LUARD, Maj, served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo |
Born: |
1788 |
Died: |
unmarried
Dec 1847 |
#8
|
John
LUARD, Lt-Col 10th Regt and 16th Lancers, served in RN 1802-07, entered 4th Dragoons 1809, served in Peninsula, and was at Waterloo and Bhurtpore
Wrote View in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar
appeared around 1833. As lithography was gradually replacing the medium of aquatint by that time, the plates in Luard’s book are uncoloured lithographs.
Wrote
History
of the Dress of the British Soldier from the
earliest period to the present time, which
was published in London by William Clowes &
son in 1852.
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Chandnee
Chauk (Silver Street), Delhi
The Illustrated London News
August 8, 1857
by
Lieut.-Colonel Luard |
1866 Farnham School of Art is founded by Lieutenant Colonel John Luard
|
Born: |
5 May, 1790 |
Married: |
1826 |
To: |
#9
Elizabeth SCOTT, daughter of Col Richard Scott, HEICS |
Died: |
1875, leaving
issue |
|
|
|
Gen
III |
|
#23 |
Richard George
Amherst LUARD, CB, JP Sussex, Lt-Gen, served in the Crimea and China, FRGS |
Born: |
29 July, 1827 |
Married: |
1863 |
To: |
#24 Hannah
CHAMBERLIN (d 1908), dau of H. Chamberlin, of
Narborough,
Norfolk |
Died: |
24 July, 1891, leaving issue, |
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|
|
|
Gen
IV |
|
#51 |
Richard
Chamberlin LUARD, Lt-Col Oxf. and Bucks, L.I. |
Born: |
12 July,
1864 |
Married
1st: |
3 June,
1897 |
To: |
#52 Pauline Margaret
REISS (d 12 Feb 1909), dau of Emil Reiss, of
Swyncombe, Oxfordshire, and had issue |
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|
|
Gen
V |
|
#58 |
Margaret Frances
LUARD (Keyford Wing, Dorchester Road, nr Yeovil) |
|
|
|
Gen
II |
|
#25 |
John
Dalbiac LUARD, late
82nd Regt |
Born: |
31 Oct 1830 |
Died: |
unmarried
Aug 1860 |
#26 |
Frederic
Peter LUARD, Maj-Gen Bengal SC, served in Indian campaigns 1857-58, and at
Pekin, China, with Fane's
Horse |
Born: |
18 Dec 1835 |
Married: |
1870 |
To: |
#27 Lydia Maria Louisa
PALMER (d 1923), dau of Rev J. Palmer, of
Jerusalem |
Died: |
1917, leaving
issue |
#28 |
Elizabeth Louisa
LUARD |
Born: |
Feb 1833 |
Died: |
June, 1899 |
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Related Luard
Lines

Many Luard men served in
India, as did the familes of the women they married. Example:
the Crommelin line.
The following two
trees are the paternal and maternal lines of #12 Emilia Frederica Crommelin, the 2nd wife of
#12 Peter William LUARD.
The CROMMELIN
line
Generation
0 |
Charles
Crommelin
Governor of Bombay Settlement
1760-1767 |
1717
- 1788 |
|
+Mary
Ardon |
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Generation
1 |
Charles
Russell Crommelin |
1763 -
1822 |
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+Juliana
Barker |
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Generation
2 |
Charles
Barker Crommelin |
1790 -
1827 |
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+Emilia
Ellen Ricketts |
1801 -
1842 |
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The RICKETS Line
Generation
1 |
George
Poyntz Ricketts, B.C.S. |
1774 - 1815 |
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+Sophia Sarah Jane Pierce |
? - 1830 |
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Generation
2 |
Emilia Ellen
Ricketts |
1801 - 1842 |
|
+Charles Barker Crommelin |
1790 - 1827 |
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And finally, from the the India List:
East-India Register & Army List, 1850
Lieutenant
Colonel John Kynaston LUARD, C.B.
Hart's 1873 Army
List
General John LUARD
Madras Staff
Corps
Lieutenant
Colonel George LUARD
1881 census
At the Royal Military College, Sandhurst:
Arthur John Hamilton
LUARD, 19, born in India/E.Indies
Recipient of the Hunza 1891 clasp to the India General Service Medal:
Surg.Cpt. Hugh LUARD

Torrington Poor Law Union and Workhouse
Torrington Union Workhouse
Situated New Street, Torrington, Devonshire
1851 census - HO/107/1894 Folio 525 Page 36
Peter Luard - Governor of Torrington Union Workhouse
Maria Luard - Matron of Torrington Union Workhouse
Who
are Peter's parents? |

Murder Mystery!
The Seal Chart Murder
The
story of the murder of Mrs. Luard in 1908 is one of the most intriguing
unsolved murders this century. It is made all the more fascinating
by the memories and theories of the descendants of people who knew both
the victim and the chief suspect, and who heard the shots ringing out on
that fateful day in August.
The story in brief.
On the
afternoon of Monday, 24th. August, 1908, Major-General Charles Luard and
his wife Caroline left their home at Ightham Knoll for a walk with their
dog. General Luard wanted to collect his golf clubs from the
clubhouse at Godden Green. They went through private woods
belonging to their neighbours on the Frankfield estate, passing en route
a secluded summer-house which they and their neighbours often
used. At the time the summer-house was empty and locked.
Before they
reached the end of the wood, Mrs. Luard decided to retrace her steps
home as she was expecting a guest to tea. The couple parted at a
wicket gate on the path. General Luard took the dog and proceeded out of
the woods and on, by road and footpath, to the clubhouse. He was
seen by witnesses on his way there. Having collected his clubs, he
returned home via the main road instead of going back through the woods.
Arriving home
he found the guest, Mrs. Stewart, waiting to have tea, but no sign of
his wife. After tea, he went back along the woodland path that he
and his wife had taken earlier, and found Mrs. Luard lying dead on the
veranda of the summer-house. She had been shot in the head and
three rings and a small purse had been stolen.
The murder
caused a national sensation, and although the local police called in
Scotland Yard, the murderer was never caught. With no swift
resolution to the case, rumour and accusation soon focussed on the
general and, despite his alibi that he had been walking to the clubhouse
at the time established for his wife's shooting (3.15 p.m.), he began
receiving anonymous letters accusing him of the murder.
The general
went to stay with friends, and a few weeks after his wife was shot, on
the very day he was due to travel to Southampton to meet his son
returning from South Africa, General Luard threw himself in front of a
train on the railway line at Teston.
The inquest
verdict on Mrs. Luard was 'murder by person or persons unknown' and that
on General Luard 'suicide while temporarily insane'. The murder
was never solved and the police files have been destroyed. The
General and Mrs. Luard are both buried in Ightham churchyard.
If you would like to purchase the story of the "Seal Cart
Murder" please go to the "Books
and Pamphlets" section of the Seven
Oaks Life web site.

St Mary the Great,
Cambridge
The East Window
The East Window in GSM was designed and made by the firm
of Hardman and given to the church in 1869 by the Revd.
H.R. Luard. It is a fine example of the revival at
that time of fifteenth-century-style stained glass.
In her ongoing tour of the church, Dr Lynne Broughton
considers its imagery and biblical origins.
The glass in the
East Window illustrates the Nativity, with Mary and the
child Jesus at its centre. Surrounding them are
illustrations of the Christmas story from the conception
of Jesus to the flight into Egypt. The upper panels
portray the hosts of heaven. The window's layout contains
a cross, formed by the intersection of the movement from
right and left of shepherds and wise men towards Christ,
with the movement downwards from heaven though the child
to the angel announcing his birth to the shepherds.
The scenes at the
bottom of the window read from left to right (north to south),
illustrating what happened before and after the birth of Jesus.
First the Annunciation (Luke 1:26-38): the Archangel Gabriel
visits Mary to tell her that she has been chosen to bear the Son
of God and, although fearful, she accepts the task.
Next
is Mary's visit to her older cousin Elizabeth, who herself is
pregnant with John the Baptist (Luke 1:39-56). Shepherds
flank the Virgin and child on one side. Joseph stands behind
them, pointing to the child as if encouraging them to come
closer. One brings a lamb, a gift appropriate from
shepherds but also signifying the Lamb of God, whom they have
come to worship. This gift also foreshadows Christ's death
on the cross, as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the
world.
At the centre of the bottom row an angel tells the
shepherds of the birth of Christ.
On the other side are the wise men who also have come, following
a star (Matthew 2:1-12). They bring gifts which symbolise
the nature of this child: gold for a king, incense for God,
myrrh to anoint a body for burial.
The remaining scenes show what follows the wise men's
visit.
In the Presentation in the Temple (Luke 2:22-39),
the child is greeted by Simeon and Anna as the prophesied
Redeemer for whom they have been waiting. Mary kneels
before Simeon, who is holding the child. To Simeon's left
is Anna; to his right Joseph holds the cage with two pigeons
which are the parents' offering to God in thanksgiving for the
birth of their son.
The Christmas---Epiphany narrative is
completed with the flight of Mary, Joseph and the child into
Egypt, to escape the massacre of male children ordered by Herod,
the king (Matthew 2:13-23). The children who were killed
(the Holy Innocents) are considered the first of those martyred
for the sake of Christ, and their killing forebodes the violent
death of Jesus himself.
The small upper lights of the
window portray angels surrounding the star, which both heralded
the coming of Christ and signified Christ himself. The New
Testament speaks of Christ as ``the bright and morning star''
(Revelation 22:16), and the image is used in one of Charles
Wesley's loveliest hymns: ``Dayspring from on high be near,
Daystar in my heart appear.''
The star, in the topmost
light, is surrounded by the cloud which veils the ineffable
presence of God, from which rays of light stream down upon the
Nativity scene below. Three angels flank the star. They
are reminiscent of the three angels who visited Abraham and
Sarah (Genesis 18:1-33) and who were an appearance of God
himself. Christian theologians through the centuries have
understood this Old Testament story as a reference to the trinitarian nature of God. The other angels represent the
hosts of heaven surrounding the throne of God. They
continually sing his praises, as did the angels who appeared to
the shepherds singing "Glory to God in the highest''.
--the above
information comes from
Majestas
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