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The glory of our stained glass

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One of the great treasures of St Dominic's is its stained glass. The banner of this website features St Dominic's iconic dog, from the main window above the sanctuary, and at left is featured a detail from the main window, showing St Dominic.

There is a collection of beautiful photographs of our windows on the web:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stainedglassaustralia/sets/72157633516274243/

Just released is an interesting biography of the artist who made most of our stained glass, Richard King of Harry Clark Studios.  Here are its details:

Ruth Sheehy, The Life and Work of Richard King: Religion, Nationalism and Modernism (Oxford, Peter Lang, 2020) n.92 in the series Reimagining Ireland. ISBN 978–1–78707–246–6

Ms Sheehy has an article on Richard King in a recent edition of the Irish times: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-other-harry-clarke-the-forgotten-work-of-richard-king-nationalist-and-modernist-1.4275422

Thanks to the generosity of a parishioner, the parish and priory each have a copy of Ms Sheehy's book, which could be borrowed by interested parishioners.

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The banner at the top is a detail from the stained glass windows in the church.  The dog is an heraldic symbol of St Dominic. A legend tells that when his mother was pregnant, she dreamed that she gave birth to a dog, with a fiery torch in its mouth.  It ran around the world, setting it on fire. 
There is also an old Latin pun.  "Domini canes" means "dogs of the Lord", while "Dominicani" means "Dominicans".
St Dominic was in fact named after St Dominic of Silos, sometime abbot of a famous Benedictine abbey near our saint's birthplace of Caleruega, Spain.  The name "Dominic" means "the Lord's man."