Fruits of the Mystery: Contempt of the world, Courage
Indignity is heaped upon the suffering Christ, as his captors mock him with a cruel barbed coronet.
John 19:1-6 Pilate then had Jesus taken away and scourged; and after this, the soldiers twisted some thorns into a crown and put it on his head and dressed him in a purple robe. They kept coming up to him and saying, 'Hail, king of the Jews!' and slapping him in the face. Pilate came outside again and said to them, 'Look, I am going to bring him out to you to let you see that I find no case against him.' Jesus then came out wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said, 'Here is the man.' When they saw him, the chief priests and the guards shouted, 'Crucify him! Crucify him!' Pilate said, 'Take him yourselves and crucify him: I find no case against him.'
Christ sits, garbed in the red robe that betokens kingship, with an expression of placid dignity as the garland of thorns is not merely placed on his head, but levered home with the full force of the man brandishing the staff. His companion has doffed his cap and bows in a travesty of respect.
The scroll in the bottom light reads Ecce rex vester (behold your King).
The inscription at the foot of the window reads: This window was given by his family in memory of Edward Slavin who died on February 7th 1929.