Saint Louis Windows - Right
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Church of the Transfiguration in Philadelphia, original installation of the windows. The Amos window is on the left; the Zacharias window is on the right. Because of space constraints, Saint Louis did not acquire the large windows in the center.
Heli
Right Window #1
Pane #5
Reading: "Mary weep not, for you see that I live."
This is not directly from a verse in the Bible; the closest is John 20:11-17.
Artists throughout history have depicted the resurrection scene in the gospel of John when Jesus appears in the garden to Mary Magdalene outside of the empty tomb, Jesus is standing there mistaken as a gardener, so artists have placed in his hand a shovel.
Look closely at the image of Jesus, and you can see the wounds on his hands and feet.![The Prophet Micheas [Micah]](https://photos.smugmug.com/Churches-and-Sacred-Spaces/Saint-Louis-Windows-Right/i-GmSF5Rt/0/3db4c20d/XL/Micheas%20%231-XL.jpg)
The Prophet Micheas [Micah]
Right Window #4
Pane #1
Reading:"Harness steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; You are the beginning of sin for daughter Zion, For in you were found the crimes of Israel." Mich I:13
The Prophet Micheas
Right Window #4
Pane #2
Reading: "Then they laid hands upon them and they received the Holy Ghost." Acts VIII:17
Right window #4, pane #2 illustrates Acts 8:17, where Peter and John are sent to baptize in Samaria and "laid their hands upon them." In this instance, St Peter is dressed as a bishop, with miter and pallium, while St John holds Peter's crozier. St John is usually shown beardless, to indicate he was the youngest apostle.
Micheas
Right Window #4
Pane #3
Reading: "And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost." Acts II:4.
This is one of the most spectacular panels in the collection. Look closely as the tongues of fire descend on Mary and the apostles. The Holy Spirit is symbolized by the dove over Mary's head.
Micheas
Right Window #4
Pane #4
Reading: "This Jesus shall come as you have seen him going." Acts I:11
Micheas
Right Window #4
Pane #5
Reading: "Going therefore, teach ye all nations." Matthew XXVIII:19
The Prophet Heli
Right Windows #1
Pane #1
Eli, Judge
Reading: "The people of Gaza were told, “Samson has come here,” and they surrounded him with an ambush at the city gate all night long. And all the night they waited, saying, “At morning light we will kill him.”
Samson lay there until midnight. Then he rose at midnight, seized the doors of the city gate and the two gateposts, and tore them loose, bar and all. He hoisted them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the ridge opposite Hebron." Judges XVI:2-3
"Heli" is the Greek spelling of Eli.
Moses Patriarch
Right Windows #3
Pane #1
The window references Genesis V:24. That verse refers to Enoch, not Moses - "Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away." There are apocryphal writings that imply that Moses did not die and was assumed into heaven, but this is not biblical.
The entire window shows those who did not suffer death and were taken directly into heaven.
Moses Patriarch
Right Windows #3
Pane #2
Reading: "He hath regarded the humility of his handmaid." Luke I:48
This is an amazing illustration showing Mary between God (to the viewer's right) and Jesus (to the viewer's left) holding a crown over her head. Over the crown is the dove that symbolizes the Holy Spirit.
Moses Patriarch
Right Windows #3
Pane #3
Reading: "Henoch [Enoch] walked with God and was seen no more." Genesis V:24
This is the same verse that we see referenced on the first Moses panel.
Moses Patriarch
Right Windows #3
Pane #4
Reading: "And Mary, the mother of God, was taken up into heaven."
There is no biblical reference to the assumption of Mary, yet this is dogma within the Catholic Church. In 1950 Pope Pius XII invoked papal infallibility to define the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin in his Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus:
"We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven."
Moses Patriarch
Right Windows #3
Pane #5
Reading: "Elias [Elijah] went up into heaven in a fiery chariot." IV Kings 2:11
The biblical reference is now, in most Catholic bibles, II Kings 2:11.
