Top Panel of the Central Light
Consecration of the Cathedral at Dogura

Top panel of central light

The story told in the central light of the window starts at the top with a depiction of the procession of Bishop Strong and his attendants to the consecration of the new Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul at Dogura on 29th October, 1939. Canon Maynard was present at this ceremony as one of Bishop Strong's Australian Commissaries, and several photographs that Fr Maynard took during his visit survive in the parish archives at St Peter's. Waller had access to these photographs of Dogura Cathedral, and Maynard reports that the top of this panel is almost an exact reproduction of a photograph of the cathedral taken on the day of the consecration. It has also been suggested that one of the figures in the procession accompanying Bishop Strong is a representation of Fr Maynard himself.

The theme of Beauty is continued in this panel—this time as ecclesiatical beauty—in both the architecture and the ceremony of the Catholic Church.

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