Photographer: Jann Soltis
2/23/01
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OF MARY / The Organ Window Photographer: Jann Soltis 2/23/01 |
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Organ Window
| The facade window, or the organ window, has what might be called a politically-inspired motif. In its star-shaped design it features symbols of the Polish nation which Father Kolasiñski, perhaps grieving over the partitioned fate of his native land, used in the hope of uniting his people. He hoped, at the same time, to minimize the sectional regionalism which the Partitions had occasioned and which he found rampant among the immigrant Pioneer Detroit Polanders. In the center of this window is the Madonna with Child. On the left is the Polish eagle, on the right the Knight of Lithuania, and at the base St. Michael, representing White Russia. Together this all symbolizes Greater Poland. |