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Take Special Note Of The Chapel Windows. Each ...
Contributed by Isaac Butterworth on May 16, 2008 (message contributor)
Take special note of the chapel windows. Each window uses symbols to depict the life and destiny of a different apostle. You will see the three money bags that represent Matthew the tax collector. You will see two crossed fish to remind us of Andrew the fisherman who died a martyr's death on an X-shaped cross. You will see a carpenter’s saw and a shepherd's staff, a chalice filled with serpents, precious stones and even flaying knives. Each of these items and others like them represent something memorable about Jesus' first band of disciples.
But my favorite -- my favorite one of them all -- is the ship whose sail is filled with the wind that carried Simon across the seas with the message of God's love. And, in a way, that ship could easily be the symbol for all the apostles, because they all left the comfort and convenience of life as they knew it to "go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation" (Mark 16:15).
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