Jackson is being welcomed into Heaven with the words "So he passed over all and all the trumpets sounded for him", which is from Pilgrim's Progress.
I didn't know these windows existed. Yikes.
[edit] I suppose it is a sign of how normalized the entire Lost Cause mythos had become that the Daughters of the Confederacy could have a pauper's bible of their most famous generals installed in the National Cathedral, because otherwise that is just an incredibly strange thing to read.
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Date: 2017-06-29 06:49 pm (UTC)I didn't know these windows existed. Yikes.
[edit] I suppose it is a sign of how normalized the entire Lost Cause mythos had become that the Daughters of the Confederacy could have a pauper's bible of their most famous generals installed in the National Cathedral, because otherwise that is just an incredibly strange thing to read.