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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House

City: Grosse Pointe

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Subject/Title of Window: Panel 1

Brief Description of Subject: Gold lion with a white-and-gold ruffled collar and headpiece surrounded by maroon diamond-shaped panel with dark gray in-painting. Border consists of clear rectangles with dark gray in-painting and a square blue jewel at each corner.

Heraldic significance:
Gold symbolizes elevated thought and understanding, respect, virtue, majesty, and generosity. Maroon symbolizes victory and patience and/or perseverance in battle. White symbolizes cleanliness, wisdom, innocence, peace, sincerity, and joy. Blue symbolizes steadfastness, strength, truth, and loyalty. The lion symbolizes dauntless courage as that of a valiant warrior.

Panel 1
Panel 1

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