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The Stained Glass Windows of St. Didacus Church, Sylmar
Windows
are the work of
R. D. Gibbs and Co., Glendale, CA
Stained
glass windows in the church have always added beauty to the church
and added to the sense that there is a sacred place, but they have
also had the purpose of being an instrument of instruction and catechesis.
Especially in the middle ages when so few people could actually
read. The visual symbols and pictures depicted in the windows of
a church were an illustrated catechism.
With the idea of being both decorative and instructional, the stained
glass windows were added in the parish church during the second
half of the 1990’s.
They consist of four separate themes. The high windows on the south
side of the church relate the stories and symbols of the parish’s
patron Saint Didacus, a Spanish Franciscan Friar who lived from
1400 to 1463.
The high panels on the north side of the church follow the Camino
Real from Mission San Diego (Didacus) to the present parish, located
alongside that historic way.
The lower windows on the south side, Our Lady’s Chapel, are
all themes from the life of the Blessed Mother.
The windows opposite on the north side, The Blessed Sacrament Chapel
have a Eucharistic theme.
The Life of St. Didacus (upper south side windows)
The High Windows on the North Side of the Church
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