Window
Building Name: St. Paul Lutheran ChurchStudio Name: Willet Hauser Architectural Glass
City: Flint
Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)
Date of Window: 1968
Subject/Title of Window: Paul and Ananias
Brief Description of Subject: From "The Life of St. Paul," booklet.
Two aspects of Paul's story are parallel here. It will be seen that the color scheme alternates panels of warm and cool colors. The reds and golds symbolize the love, the glory and power of God. The panels in these hues portray the temporal life of Paul as he lived it on earth and as described in the Book of Acts. Those openings in cool greens, blues and purples with very little nuance or contrast express the hope and salvation of manking, and symbolize the spiritual life of St. Paul illustrating symbolically some of his words largely from his Epistles.
The seventh window on the left side of the church is based on Romans 8:35-37: "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress or presecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written 'For thy sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.' No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us." The lamb represents the Christian surrounded by the love of Christ which is symbolized by small crosses.
This window was given to the glory of God by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Catsman n memory of Mrs. Catsman's mother.
Height: 132"
Width: 42"
Type of Glass and Technique: Slab or Faceted Glass (Dalle de Verre)
Sheep to Be Slaughtered
The Story of St. Paul, L8-L5
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