Pope Saint Clement I
Saint Clement was the disciple of St Peter and St Paul, and the third Pope. He is also considered as one of the Fathers of the Church, and the same person to whom St Paul alludes in his letter to the Philippians: “I entreat thee, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel; with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life” (4:3).
St Clement's emblem is an anchor, and he is the patron saint of anchor-smiths and blacksmiths, and he is also one of the several saints invoked by seamen. This is because according to tradition he was martyred by drowning c.100, being thrown into the Black Sea with an anchor tied to his neck.
This stained glass of the saint is by Gordon Webster and it is in St Peter's church in the maritime city of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Pope Saint Clement I
Saint Clement was the disciple of St Peter and St Paul, and the third Pope. He is also considered as one of the Fathers of the Church, and the same person to whom St Paul alludes in his letter to the Philippians: “I entreat thee, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel; with Clement also, and with other my fellow-labourers, whose names are in the book of life” (4:3).
St Clement's emblem is an anchor, and he is the patron saint of anchor-smiths and blacksmiths, and he is also one of the several saints invoked by seamen. This is because according to tradition he was martyred by drowning c.100, being thrown into the Black Sea with an anchor tied to his neck.
This stained glass of the saint is by Gordon Webster and it is in St Peter's church in the maritime city of Aberdeen in Scotland.