STAINED GLASSES FOR THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA AUSILIATRICE
Cassina de' Pecchi -
CHURCH STAINED GLASS
The stained glass windows, for the Church of Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in Cassina de' Pecchi, are developing over the years, but in my mind there is a single project that seeks to maintain a unity of style.
The first window was the large cross placed in the apse.
Dedicated to Mary, it has in its center the M of Mary and 4 stars to remember the Crown of 12 stars of Maria SS.
The colors all tend to blue in memory of Mary's mantle.
The subsequent windows created are those of the area where the choir usually stands to sing and are a sort of geometric but soft continuity of the cross in the apse. In fact all the colors start and recall this one. In the second window, the one closest to the statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the colors tend more towards green precisely to contrast with the red of Jesus' robe.
Red that is accentuated by the last creation, that of the rose window where the Blood and the Water coming out of Christ's side are expressed through the colors.
ROSE WINDOW OF SANTA MARIA AUSILIATRICE OF CASSINA DE' PECCHI
Year 2021
Initially, the project included the image of Mary Help of Christians in the center, to whom the Church is dedicated.
But in the apse cross built in 2016, in the center, we find an M, the M of Mary.
THE ROSONE is linked from a formal point of view to the glass one, but requires different and symbolically stronger colours.
Indeed
in this new project there is, so to speak, a stronger synthesis: Mary seems absent but she is not: like her she is fully absorbed by the Mystery of the Cross as an element of salvation.
Christ and Mary have always been inseparably together in this plan of salvation.
From Christ's pierced side came Blood and Water, and here we find them symbolized by the red and blue that form a cross.
It is a strong stained glass as is the gold in the centre: a symbol of God, of the Heart of God from which all our good and our life springs.
So the dedication to Mary Help of Christians, Mary's help towards Christians is the same in this window but is gathered in God's help of which she is a very strong mediator.