Twelve vines with fruit flow out from the central Cup of Christ symbol to the outer twelve symbols in the window. The vines call to mind Jesus’ statement: “I Am the True Vine”. The red backdrop (red dots in the figure) behind each of the twelve outer symbols also helps to connect the outer symbols thematically with the central Cup of Christ symbol. (Matthew 20:23 “You will drink my cup…”)
My best take on the Twelve Apostles of Jesus is shown in the figure. Whoever created this window did a lot of careful research to incorporate the symbols for each of the Apostles. Note that a given Apostle may have more than one symbol to choose from in terms of representing him. For example, in the PLU window we saw Matthew represented as a winged man referring to Matthew’s role as a Gospel writer. Here Matthew is represented with three bags of money which refers again to Matthew the Apostle, but this time identifies Matthew by his role as a Tax Collector.
The symbol choices used for the Apostles vary in this window. Sometimes a common Apostle symbol is used, as is the case with Matthew, other times, an Apostle’s martyrdom symbol is used.
In part 5, we begin at 1 o’clock with the symbol for James the greater, the brother of John, and the first of the Apostles to be martyred. (I am excluding Judas).