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That’s actually the purpose of stained glass windows in Medieval times! Many of the commoners (peasants) couldn’t read, so churches had stained glass windows that taught them about the Faith. They were basically stained glass catechisms

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The Jesse Window

Recently, on my mammoth church-crawling trip to East Yorkshire, I posted a picture of the Jesse window in Selby Abbey. A number of people asked about this so I thought I would do a post on it to explain and hopefully show a few examples. This is my photo of the window at Selby which set this off…

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