1. Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane

Celure, Oliver Caroe, 2012

University Church of St Mary the Virgin

By kind permission of the Vicar and Churchwardens, University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford.

The blue ceiling studded with stars is called a ‘celure’, from the Latin ‘caelum’, meaning ‘heaven’. Painted in 2012, this celure shows the constellation Pleiades and was inspired by this biblical text: ‘Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades, or loose the cords of Orion?’ (Job 38:31).

Listen to a reflection by Canon Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford