Early gothic statue of Simeon (1220) holding the Christ child, part of the right hand portal of Reims Cathedral.
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According to the Gospel of St Luke when Jesus was presented to the temple Simeon who had received a promise that we would not die before he had seen the Messiah, took Jesus into his arms and called him a Light to the World.
This scene on the central portal of Reims Cathedral depict the Presentation in the Temple, with the Virgin Mary and Simeon as the central figures (1235). The two outer figures of Joseph and a servant girl, were later additions after 1250.
Simeon, detail from the "Presentation in the Temple" scene on the central portal of Reims Cathedral.
This fresco depicting the Simeon is by Fra Angelico and is in the Dominican monastery of San Marco, Florence.
These four stained-glass panels in the quire clerestory of Gloucester Cathedral were designed and executed by Clayton and Bell, one of the foremost English glass studios of the Victorian era. The sequence depicts Zechariah and St Elizabeth, the parents of St John the Baptist, together with St John himself and St Simeon
Stained glass panel depicting Simeon by Burlison and Grylls (1892) in a south window of the Lady Chapel Worcester Cathedral.
These stained glass panels depict the "Presentation in the Temple", in All Saints church Swinford, are by Clayton and Bell.