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Building Name: St. John Armenian Church

Studio Name: Loire (Gabriel) Studios

City: Southfield

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Date of Window: 1966

Subject/Title of Window: Saint Philip

Brief Description of Subject: Overall description of the dome windows provided by the architect:
 
"Your eyes are drawn upwards to the center disk at the top of the domed ceiling, seventy-two feet above the floor. From this central disk, sixteen arched windows, each glazed with faceted glass, portray saints important to the Armenian Church --- thirteen apostles [includes Saint Paul] and three Armenian saints."
 
Saint Philip is portrayed with attributes of loaves of bread and a tall cross.
 
The loaves of bread references Philip's answer to Jesus at the miracle of the Feeding the Five Thousand. "When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming towards him, he said to Philip, 'Where shall we buy bread to eat?' He asked this only to test him, for he already knew what to do. Philip answered him, 'Eight months wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite.'"  (John 6:5 -7)
 
The tall cross is associated with his martyrdom. Tradition has Philip, while preaching in Phrygia, crucified in the city of Hierapolis. 

Height: 8'

Width: 2'

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

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