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Buffalo Religious Art Center
149-157 East Street, Buffalo, NY
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Religious Art Center - Online Art Collection
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Saint Luke ... St. Mary Magdalene |
Left window: St. Luke the Evangelist |
Left window: St. Luke the Evangelist |
Left window: St. Luke the Evangelist |
Windows illustrated on this page designed by Ferdinand Frohe of the Frohe Art Glass. Evidence: signature on the Bishop William Turner window. |
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Left window: St. Luke |
Center window: St. Mary Magdalene |
Center window: St. Mary Magdalene |
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Right window: St. John the Evangelist |
Right window: St. John the Evangelist |
Right window: St. John the Evangelist |
Right window: St. John the Evangelist |
Without backlighting, |
Saints Luke and John the Evangelists
These are three windows of at least eighteen windows that were on installed in the Queen of Peace narthex
A total of ten of the narthex windows are owned in 2010 by the Buffalo Religious Art Center. Six are on display. (See photos of the other three on display). In the Buffalo Religious Art Center, the windows are installed with backlighting in one of the former St. Francis Xavier's north confessionals.
Another eight narthex windows are owned by Corpus Christi RC Church and are on display in the Corpus Christi Chapel.The windows are enameled (as opposed to pot metal or opalescent).
Title: |
St. Luke the Evangelist Iconography in Art and Architecture: St. Luke St. Mary Magdalene Iconography in Art and Architecture: St. Mary Magdalene St. John the Evangelist Iconography in Art and Architecture: St. John |
Studio: |
Frohe Art
Glass Co. Note: These windows are not signed. Three other narthex windows also from Queen of Peace are online here. One of the other windows is signed by Ferdinand A. Frohe and it is similar in composition and art work to the ones illustrated above; they are different, however, in that the texts are in English, not Polish as found above. |
Year: |
1929-1930 (Queen of Peace RC Church was built in 1930, closed in 1985) |
Material: |
Stained glass (enameled) |
Heights: |
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Provenance: |
Queen of Peace RC Church PGSNYS: Queen of Peace See also: Art Acquisitions from Queen of Peace RC Church |
Year donated: |
2009 |
The Synoradzki Family Story of a Sponsorship The following is a story that I would like to share: Decades later, for my father's birthday, my husband and
I went to Queen of Peace and took a picture of the window, had it framed and sent
it off to Florida where my Dad was living. He was very grateful and surprised and
enjoyed the photo for many years. After he passed at 78 years of age, I inherited
the framed picture of the stained glass window and kept it visible, never forgetting
that day my dad took me to Queen of Peace, the parish of his heritage. You see, the window had been purchased by my grandfather in thanksgiving for the recovery of my father, who had been involved in an automobile accident while riding his bicycle as a youngster. A truck had turned over and fell on my father. His head landed next to a rock in the street and the rock and God's grace saved my father's life. My grandfather was forever grateful. Father David referred me to the Buffalo Religious Arts Center
in November 2008. The Arts Center is committed to saving and displaying the religious
artifacts from the closing places of worship in Western New York. I asked if
I could purchase the window but was informed that the window was now owned by the
Art Center and could not be sold but could be sponsored by the family. My father's memory is back in the place where he grew up
in Buffalo, New York, and and the family name will never be forgotten. |