Monday, November 28, 2011

Dove of the Church

This is one of six images which will be in the new stained glass windows. You may have noticed this image on the bulletin last weekend, the Advent Newsletter and the parish website.

In most churches, a dove in a stained glass window represents the Holy Spirit but in this case it represents St. Columbkille. Columb means “dove” in Gaelic and kille is “church,” so he came to be known as the “church’s dove.”

This is one of the six stained glass windows that have been ordered to give us a better sense of what it would look like to finish off the clerestory.

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