Windows at Maccabees Choir, St. Andreas, Part II

Posted by MadScientist (Düsseldorf, Germany) on 23 October 2008 in Art & Design.

These new stained glass windows are located at St. Andreas church, Cologne. They are showing the sufferings of the Maccabees and their correspondence in the affliction of the Christ. This is the continuation of yesterday's post.

Left window.
Bottom: Drastic depiction of human dismemberment, surrounded by weaponed torturers. A way of suffering that is in place of war, terror, and pogrom. The slash wounds appear as 'rose blooms'.
Top: The bended figure of the crucified saviour. The way of the cross makes sense in the sacrifice of the crucifixion.

Right window.
Bottom: The decorated heads of the Maccabees and their mother Salome who got through the torment are recompensed by God. The eye of one of the heads is a yellow Star of David, a reminder of the Holocaust.
Top: Mary, the queen of heaven, Jesus in her arms, a globe in the stretched hand. Above that scene symbols of the Holy Trinity: the eye of God, the benedictive hand of the son, the Holy Spirit in the shape of a pigeon. The salvation the Maccabees believed in corresponds with the salvation of Mary (and whole mankind).

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