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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: All Saints Episcopal Church

Studio Name: Connick (Charles J.), Ltd.

City: Pontiac

Window Shape: 6 (gothic arched, more than 2 vertical sections)

Date of Window: 1951

Subject/Title of Window: St. John

Brief Description of Subject: John is shown in the central lancet bearing his sign, the chalice and serpent. According to tradition, he was condemned to death by the Emporor Domitian by being ordered to drink a cup of poison. However, when John took the cup the poison departed from it in the form of a serpent which fell dead at this feet. Below him at the bottom of the central lancet is his traditional symbol, the eagle.

The medallion in the left lancet shows him as a young man writing his Gospel with its sublime language and imagery. The medallion in the right lancet shows him as an old man on the Isle of Patmos writing down his visions in Revelation.
"Shed upon your Church, O Lord, the brightness of your light, that we, being illumined by the teaching of your apostle and evangelist John, may so walk in the light of your truth, that at length we may attain to the fullness of eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever."

Inscriptions: Palmer


Height: ~82"

Width: ~78"

Type of Glass and Technique: Lead Came

St. John
St. John

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