From The Church Times-AN ENGRAVED glass window has finally been installed in a Dorset village church, almost 30 years after the artist first offered it to the parish.
It depicts Judas Iscariot at the moment he hanged himself in remorse for betraying Jesus, with his 30 pieces of silver trickling though his fingers to the ground. But even though its creator, Sir Laurence Whistler, dubbed it the "forgiveness window", and showed the silver coins turning into flowers before they touched the soil (below), church authorities at the time deemed the subject of suicide unfitting.
The piece was originally intended as the final part of the restoration of St Nicholas's, Moreton, near Dorchester, which was devastated by a bomb in 1940.
More here-
http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/2-may/news/uk/judas-window-allowed-into-church
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