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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: St. Paul's Episcopal Church

Studio Name: Tiffany Studios

City: Flint

Window Shape: 5 (gothic arched, 2 vertical sections)

Date of Window: 1926

Subject/Title of Window: Easter Morning

Brief Description of Subject: The window was dedicated on Easter Sunday, April 4, 1926. The scene is based on the risen Christ appearing to Mary Magdalene on Easter morning as recorded in John 20:11 - 17.
 
The scene is set in a bucolic landscape lit by the morning sun. Christ is posed as speaking. Mary is pictured as a young woman with long hair and holding an alabaster jar of perfumed oil. The jar of perfumed oil and long hair as her attributes comes from the tradition that Mary Magdalene was the repentant sinner in Luke 7:32 - 50 --- she outraged the Pharisees as she wet Jesus' feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, kissed his feet, and poured perfumed oil on them.

Inscriptions: “To the glory of God and in loving memory of Franklin H. Pierce and Mary E. Pierce his wife”


Condition of Window: Good

Height: 90 3/4"

Width: 24 1/4"

Type of Glass and Technique: Opalescent Glass, Lead Came, Drapery Glass

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