Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
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Details from Coventry Cathedral website:
The artist John Piper was asked to design the stained glass. His view was that with 198 small areas of window to fill, the glass needed dazzling colour and an abstract pattern to create unity.
Working with glassmaker Patrick Reyntiens, he created the window from thousands of differently-sized pieces of glass to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jul 18th 2025
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Thornflower has its roots deep in the artist’s childhood in Prague (which she left in 1939) in happy memories of her grandmothers’ home “Das Rosel Haus (the house of rose)” and in the death of her grandmother in Treblinka in 1942.
It is a reflection not only on the Nazi Holocaust but on “man’s inhumanity” across [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2025
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From Wiki:
The tapestry depicts a seated Risen Christ, within an oval mandorla on a green background, surrounded by the four living creatures mentioned in Chapter 4 of the Book of Revelation, which are also symbols of the Four Evangelists. The tetramorph (four shapes) of the title are the lion for St Mark, eagle for St John, calf for St Luke, and angel [...]
7 Comments CherryPie on Jul 13th 2025
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The reflection of the ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael is reflected in the glass that surrounds the entrance to the new Cathedral in Coventry.
On 23rd March 1956. Her Majesty the Queen (Elizabeth II) laid the foundation stone for the New Cathedral.
*The ruined Cathedral Church of St Michael dates from 1300AD. One of the largest [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 10th 2025
Filed under Faith Foundations, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2025
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
4 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2025
And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
Luke 11:9
6 Comments CherryPie on Feb 10th 2025
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2025
