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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Building Name: St. Paul Lutheran Church

Studio Name: Willet Hauser Architectural Glass

City: Flint

Window Shape: 2 (rectangle)

Date of Window: 1968

Subject/Title of Window: Angel With a Flaming Sword

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 thirteenth window on the left side of the church shows the angel with a flaming sword. It is based on Paul's letter to the Romans, Chapter 11, verse 26. "... And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, the Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob."

The lower half of the window shows the hands with drops of water based on Paul's letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 3, verse 7, "So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth."

This window was given to the glory of God by Mr. and Mrs. Carl Bierlein, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Bierlein, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Solberg, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zellman in memory of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bierlein.

Height: 132"

Width: 42"

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

Angel With a Flaming Sword
Angel With a Flaming Sword
The Story of St. Paul, L16-L13
The Story of St. Paul, L16-L13

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