This is an embroidered hanging of Saint Matthew based on an illustration in the Lindesfarne Gospels. I expect that I am the only one in the church who knows from where the artist got her inspiration. She made hangings for every season, about twenty-five for each, and each carefully researched. This is one of ten on each of the side walls. She always came to church wearing the appropriate litugical colour. When she died, she had no family, and the church buried her. She had a grand funeral. It was three weeks after the church had celebrated her ninetieth birthday with a large purple (her favourite)party. She had lived for that party.
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