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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: St. Mary Catholic Church

City: Royal Oak

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Subject/Title of Window: Seat of Wisdom

Brief Description of Subject: This clerestory window is one of 17 windows illuminating titles for the Virgin Mary found in the Litany of Loreto. The title pictured here is "Seat of Wisdom."
In Proverbs 2:6, "the Lord gives wisdom." This is iterated in Luke 2:47 where the boy Jesus is in the Temple "and all that heard him were astonished at his wisdom. Mary is the "Seat of Wisdom" as she bore the Lord in her womb, and it is on her lap that He sat. 

Height: 10'

Width: 4'

Seat of Wisdom
Seat of Wisdom

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