I have visited some remarkable cathedrals in Europe, and I obviously have seen stained glass windows. But I paid less attention to the light shining through them until we visited Sagrada Familia in Barcelona a few years ago. We entered late in the day as light streamed though that church’s remarkable windows, and the effect was simply astonishing. After that I began to notice similar, though subtler, effects in other big churches.
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan is a huge and impressive structure. We visited during a free day on our February trip to the city. (We were actually there to help our son and daughter-in-law paint their apartment — which is a long story I won’t relate here.) We slowly walked the length of the cathedral, and on our walk back toward the entrance I spotted this light on one of the gigantic columns.
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