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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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MSGC : Collections : Window

Window

Building Name: Edsel and Eleanor Ford House

City: Grosse Pointe

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Subject/Title of Window: Panel 2

Brief Description of Subject: Gold crown with white in-painted background, circular shape. Surrounded by circular border containing four in-painted panels – white wings, white eagle, white/gold dragon, and white/gold lion. Abstract pieces in remaining border are blue, green, and red. Bottom-center contains white in-painted piece that resembles an infant’s face.

Heraldic significance:
Gold symbolizes elevated thought and understanding, respect, virtue, majesty, and generosity. White symbolizes cleanliness, wisdom, innocence, peace, sincerity, and joy. Blue symbolizes steadfastness, strength, truth, and loyalty. Green symbolizes freedom, hope, beauty, joy, health, and loyalty in love. Red symbolizes warriors or martyrs, military strength, and eagerness to serve one’s country. The crown symbolizes royal authority, victory, sovereignty, empire, and success. The wings symbolize swiftness and protection. The eagle symbolizes noble nature, strength bravery, alertness, high intellect, ingenuity, quick wit, and judiciousness. As a Christian symbol, the eagle can also symbolize salvation, redemption, and resurrection. The lion symbolizes dauntless courage as that of a valiant warrior.

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