To the editor:

The Oct. 5 Journal-World carried a brief story about damage to the stained glass windows of St. Fidelis Church in Victoria; the damage is a real shame. Mr. Lott will do a fine job on the delicate repairs. His statement that the windows are probably the most famous in the state, however, isn’t quite true, unless he means locally, among Kansans.

The most famous stained glass windows in the state worldwide are those in Sacred Heart Church, Mound City, one of the many historical treasures of Linn County. The work of another German studio, this in Milwaukee (Esser), unfortunately now gone, these windows show the mission to North America after the Louisiana Purchase of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French nun who lived among the Potawatomi people in the early 19th century.

People from all over the world come to Kansas to see this church and its windows, and a replica of one of them hung from the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome during her canonization in 1988.

Beverly Boyd,

Lawrence