Michigan Stained Glass Census

The "Christ and the Battlefield Window" at St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church is a World War I memorial to "all Jacksonians serving in the Armed Forces and to the nuns and nurses who cared for them on the battlefields." At the right of the scene are soldiers and sailors arriving on shore, bearing the American flag and supporting the wounded. To the left are other soldiers and a Sister of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul tending a fallen nurse. Behind them St. Mary looks upward toward figures of Christ and attending angels.

Completed in 1926, the Romanesque Revival church was designed by Frederick Spier of Detroit. The "Christ and the Battlefield Window" was created by the Tyrolese Art Glass Company of Innsbruck, Austria, after a design made by the church pastor, Father Eugene M. Cullinane.

St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church of Jackson was registered in the Michigan Stained Glass Census by Charles Hoffman of Eastpointe (MSGC 93.0065).

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