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Letters to AO

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Letters from the week of 4 - 10 April 2016

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The Woman in the Window

In the north wall of Ottawa's Christchurch Cathedral, underneath the rose window, is a window depicting Elizabeth Christie, who was a Victorian activist who worked for the housing, retraining, and resettlement of prostitutes / fallen women / sex trade workers.

Austin Cooke
Saint Barnabas
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
4 April 2016

The main window (i.e., behind the altar) at St John the Evangelist, Somerville, features the recently resurrected Jesus speaking to Mary Magdalene (in a maroon garment), and standing between two angels. It's a L.C. Tiffany studio work.

Keith McCoy
St John the Evangelist
Somerville New Jersey, USA
5 April 2016

Windows with women not the BVM - in the Cathedral in Laramie one of the windows feature the meal at Emmaus - one of the couple with Jesus is a woman.

Ann Fontaine
St Catherine of Alexandria, Nehalem/Manzanita
Cannon Beach, Oregon, USA
akhfontaine@gmail.com
7 April 2016

In Liverpool Cathedral 23 women are celebrated in the stained glass of the Noble Women windows of the Lady Chapel staircase and atrium, commemorating those from Liverpool and from further afield who made an important contribution to society throughout history. The Liverpool Diocesan Girls Friendly Society raised £200 to pay for the windows in time for the Chapel's opening in 1910. Subjects include Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rosetti, Elizabeth Fry, Grace Darling, Catherine Gladstone, Susanna Wesley, Josephine Butler, Agnes Jones and Kitty Wilkinson. There's a photograph that I took of the Josephine Butler window here.

Peter Owen
St Luke's Crosby
Liverpool, UK
peter@anglicansonline.org
8 April 2016

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