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Building Name: St. Florian Catholic Church

City: Hamtramck

Window Shape: 4 (rounded or rose window)

Subject/Title of Window: Professions

Brief Description of Subject: Window description: This nave rose window depicts 7 professions.

12 o'clock -- LEX MOYSES -- Law Moses -- Dextera Dei (right hand of God) pointing to the 10 Commandments (given to Moses)
 2 o'clock -- LABOR -- Labor -- Builders square and at top, hands on a carpenters vest
4 o'clock -- MUSICA S(ANC)TUS GREGORIUS -- Music St. Gregory -- sheet of music (using modern notation) and a crozier (pope)
6 o'clock -- ARCHITECHTURA -- ARS  S(ANC)TUS THOMA -- Architecture -- Art St. Thomas -- Church in India that according to legend was built by St. Thomas
8 o'clock -- ASTRONOMIA GALILEUS -- Astronomy Galilei -- stars and the planet Saturn
10 o'clock -- MEDICINA S(ANC)TUS LUCAS -- Medicine St. Luke -- Caduceus (modern symbol for medicine). St. Luke was a doctor by profession.

Center -- THEOLOGIA S(ANC)TUS THOMA DE AQUINA -- Theology St. Thomas Aquinas -- quill pen on a book. St Thomas Aquinas is a Doctor of the Catholic Church for his Liturgical writing.

Notes: St. Gregory the Great (c.540 - 604) was one of the Doctors of the Church and served as Pope from 590 - 604. A popular legend credits Gregory with composing or collecting and categorizing a form of spiritual music to use during Mass or Monastic Office. Appropriately enough that music goes by the name "Gregorian Chant". Unusual that as a Polish Catholic Church the window uses Galileo Galilei as the person to represent Astronomy rather than the Polish priest Nicholas Copernicus. Galileo Galilei faced the inquisition for promoting the sun centered universe of Nicholas Copernicus and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.

Inscriptions: LEX MOYSES
LABOR
MUSICA S(ANC)TUS GREGORIUS
ARCHITECHTURA -- ARS S(ANC)TUS THOMA
ASTRONOMIA GALILEUS
MEDICINA S(ANC)TUS LUCAS
THEOLOGIA S(ANC)TUS THOMA DE AQUINA


Width: 13' diameter

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