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Baker Photography
Hamilton, OH |
| This is the sixth window on your right as you come in the back
of church. |
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| What to look for: |
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Left window frame: EVA
- Eve being tempted to eat an apple by the devil, a snake, head of Noah, Lightning, water,
animals that Noah took into the ark in a boat shaped design. AVE -
Mary holding the Christ Child, stepping on the head of the serpent, fish and lily, Mary
(wearing) has a blue cross in one hand, the halo around Mary's head forms a rainbow. |
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Right window frame: God the Father,
a triangle for a halo, a bird, the Holy Spirit above, swirls and flashes of light, the
words: light - firmament - land - water - vegetation - heavenly - bodies - animals - birds
- fish - man. Pictures of flowers, leaves, sun, dog, bird, fish, water, the figure of a
man kneeling at the bottom. |
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Meaning: For a true succession of time
in creation, the window on the right should be studied first. After God had created the
world, He created man. But through Eve, man sinned. The word EVA at the
top of the picture has been changed to AVE farther down, because Mary has
reversed the situation by cooperating in the salvation of man.
The lightning, the only streak of red in the window is symbolic
of God's anger because mankind had become so wicked. He destroyed the then known world by
flood.
(If you visit the church on a sunny mid - afternoon the reflection
of this streak of red is outstanding as it shines on the alter, as all the other
reflections are blue.)
God promised Noah. He would never again destroy the world by
water, and gave the rainbow as a covenant. It is appropriate that Mary's halo, or her
holiness, has brought a promise of salvation to all mankind. |
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