Windows in Peoria, Illinois
St. Francis Hospital Chapel
Angel window
Holy cardlike detail from below↑

Annunciation
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St. Mary's Cathedral

The Columbus window with the coat-of-arms of
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in the upper quatrefoil. In the upper
medallion, the Santa Maria touches San Salvador on Oct. 12, 1492, with the
Pinta and the Nina in the background. The center quatrefoil has the
coat-of-arms of Columbus. In the lower medallion he plants the Cross in the western hemisphere.
A Spanish Benedictine accompanied him on his second voyage.
Detail showing the upper medallion

Detail showing the Columbus coat-of-arms & lower medallion

The Santa Maria (Saint or Holy
Mary) brought Columbus across the ocean to an island he named San Salvador (Holy Savior). While this happened in the
history of the New World, Holy Mary herself brought Jesus, the Holy Savior,
into the world.
Scholars are said to agree that Columbus made landfall at an island in the
Bahamas, which its inhabitants called Guanahani. While the ship
did well in crossing the Atlantic, she ran aground 74 days later on
Christmas day, 1492. One may muse that this can suggest that
Mary was here to stay, and on the very birthday of her Son. Where
the ship ran aground was at the site of Môle
Saint-Nicolas, Haiti. Timbers from the ship were used in building
this place, originally called La Navidad, Christmas in Spanish.
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St. Martin de Porres



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