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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: St. Florian Catholic Church

Studio Name: Mayer (Franz) and Company

City: Hamtramck

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Date of Window: 1936

Subject/Title of Window: Prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane

Brief Description of Subject: Description: Floral background is grapes and grape leaves -- symbolizing the blood of Christ.. The top quatrefoil is made up of a circle of light (probable symbolizing God the sun of righteousness) surrounded by the "crown of thorns" (symbolizing the Passion to come). The picture shows a kneeling Christ praying to an angels to "Let this cup pass". Angel is holding the cup. Near Christ's feet are the sleeping apostles -- left to right Peter, John the Evangelist and James the Greater. In the bottom Quatrefoil is a cup superimposed on a cross.

Subject Note: Window based on Matt 26: 36-46 Jesus took Peter, John the Evangelist, and James the Greater with him to pray in the Garden of Gethsemane. Three times he left them and told them to watch over Him so that he could pray to the Father to "Let this cup pass from Me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will". Each time he came back he found the three apostles asleep.

Inscriptions: BRACTWO III ZAKONU SW. FRANCISZKA 1936 RK
Donated by the 3rd Order of Saint Francis in 1936


Height: 11'

Width: 3'

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