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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 2

Brief Description of Subject: This is window two of two located behind the altar. Each consists 10 squares, some 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 the symbols and the quote, in French, from Saint John's writings.
 
Squares numbered 11 -  20 from top to bottom --- listed is the location of a square with a symbol and the quote translated from French, also included is its place in the Bible. (NOTE the squares 19 and 20 were installed in reverse order from the watercolor sketch I am quoting) 
 
Square 12 --- "I am the Omega"  Revelation 1:8
Square 15 --- "I am the light of the world"  John 8:12
Square 16 --- "I am the good shepherd"  John 10:11
Square 18 --- "I am the resurrection and the life"  John 11:25
Square 19 --- "I am the true vine"  John 15:1
Square 20 --- Loire identified the symbol rather than the verse, "la couronne royale" the royal crown. The verse would be "I am a king"  John 18:37
 
The maker's signature appears in what he had as square 20  "Gabriel Loire  Chartres  France  1967."

Height: 34’

Width: 15"

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

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