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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: St. John Lutheran Church

Studio Name: Loire (Gabriel) Studios

City: Rochester

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Date of Window: 1967

Subject/Title of Window: I Am, Part 1

Brief Description of Subject: This is window one of two located behind the altar. Each consists of 10 squares, some are abstract in design while others have symbols that point to Christ's words that begin "I am" as found in the writings of Saint John the Evangelist.
 
Sent to the Church with the watercolor sketch of these windows by Gabriel Loire, was a note that both identified those squares containing symbols and the quote, in French, from Saint John's writings.
 
Squares numbered starting from the top --- listed is the location of a square with a symbol and the quote translated from French, also included is its place in the Bible:
 
Square 2 --- "I am the Alpha"  Revelation 1:8
Square 4 --- "I am the bread of life"  John 6:35
Square 5 --- "I am the gate"  John 10:7
Square 8 --- "I am the way and the truth and the life"  John 14:6

Height: 35’

Width: 15"

Type of Glass and Technique: Slab or Faceted Glass (Dalle de Verre)

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