WINDOW TO BL. DUNS SCOTUS. (West elevation - 5th window) The theme of the design is to commemorate his championship of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception six hundred years before the infallible declaration of the Church was made.
The medallion on the left side of the main figure depicts Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. That on the right recalls the Apparition to St. Bernadette. Linking these subjects and preventing any lack of interest in the lower half of the main figure, the artist introduced the device of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary (donors of the window). The medallion in the base has as its subject the meeting of Anna and Joachim, parents of Mary. |
In the base, to the left, appear the arms of Oxford University where Bl. Duns Scotus was a professor and, on the right, the Discipulus Francisci indicating that he was a Franciscan. The diamond shapes on each side of the principal figure record the dates of the birth and death of Scotus.
At the apex of the design is the seal of the University of Paris, where Scotus won his doctorate. Incorporated with the seal is his title, Doctor Subtilis, and below are inscribed the words, Theology, Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics, to recall some of his intellectual pursuits. |