Stain Glass

Stain Glass Windows

First windows were provided for the Church built in 1894. Additional stain glass windows were added to the Church around the year 1907. There are no records of where the windows were made but it is thought either France or Germany.

These windows were incorporated into the new Church built in 1955.

Stain glass windows were adopted to invest space with the same sacred character as the imparted by frescoes and mosaics. Art strives to approach the transcendent God, but also the God who communicates God's very self. These windows were intended to spiritualize the light and spread it in a sort of emanation of the sacred images.

Before the days of the printed word, these images in art and presented in stain glass were a sort of catechism. These windows depict a biblical scene or a Saint and from the inspiration revealed, instruction would follow revealing the insights from the scene or person's life who is represented. 
 

All Saint's Day
November 1, 2011
Deacon David Pustka