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Our Lady of Grace, Dearborn Heights, Michigan

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Window

Building Name: St. Joseph Church

City: Adrian

Window Shape: 3 (arched)

Subject/Title of Window: St. Michael Battles the Devil

Brief Description of Subject: The Enemy is Reason? Here St. Michael battles a quasi-anthropomorphized devil who wields a boulder bearing a motto from Enlightenment thinker Voltaire: "Écrasez l'Infâme" ("Crush the infamous thing"). The expression is typically taken to be directed at the Catholic Church or more generally at the tyranny and aristocracy of the Ancien Régime.

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