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unusual facts about The Light of the World



Edward Robert Hughes

He helped the increasingly infirm Hunt with the version of The Light of the World now in St. Paul's Cathedral and with The Lady of Shalott.

Ernest Gambart

Among his best selling reproductions were William Holman Hunt's The Light of the World (1858), an inspiring and highly influential image of Christ, and William Powell Frith's The Derby Day (1858).

St Mary's Church, Ewell

A fire in 1973, started by the explosion of the church's central heating boiler, destroyed the North Aisle and everything in it, including an organ built in 1865 by "Father" Henry Willis, except a print of The Light of the World by famous painter and local resident William Holman Hunt, who painted the original by the disused gunpowder mills in Kingston Road.


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Dean Goffin

His major works include: Meditation - The Light of the World; Symphony of Thanksgiving, written for the International Staff Band of The Salvation Army in 1951 for their Diamond Jubilee Celebration; and Rhapsody In Brass, selected for the 1949 British Open Brass Band Championships at Belle Vue.

Manchester High School for Girls

At Exeter College they admired a tapestry designed by Edward Burne – Jones, saw Holman Hunt’s picture, “The Light of the World” at Keble and recognised boxwood carvings by Grinling Gibbons in the chapel of Trinity College.

Montol Festival

In tradition this represents either the Christ Child or Old Father Time marking the death of the year,or the celebration of the birth of Christ "the light of the world".

Salt + Light Television

The name of the station derives itself from the theme of WYD 2002, "You are the salt of the earth... you are the light of the world," part of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:13-14).