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Scenes from the Legend of St. Frideswide
This stained glass panel by Edward Burne-Jones graces the Latin Chapel of Christ Church in Oxford. As paraphrased from Flora Symbolica, in his use of sunflowers as a medieval motif, he exercised his “right to make them talk mottoes”. Among those - absente sole languesco (in the absence of the sun I perish) and usque ad reditum (until your return).
Look how cute the pigs are!