Unveiling our Restored
Conversion of St. Paul
Stained-Glass Window

the weekend of 2026 Jan 24 & 25

Restored Conversion of St. Paul window

Window before restoration

After over a year of working on our time stained window, on January 25th weekend, we unveiled the restored version. Time had blurred the image and knock out pieces of the stained glass. Through careful matching colors and enhancing colorings, our Conversion of St. Paul window has been restored to her glory days.

On Friday, Jan 23, the refurbished window was installed and the following weekend, at all the Sunday Masses, we blessed this image that had inspired pilgrims to Old St. Mary’s Cathedral over the decades.

As Catholics, we use images to help remind us of our heroes of the faith and how God is ever faithful in blessing them and using them to inspire deeper hope, deeper faith, deeper love across space and time.

The conversion of St. Paul reminds us God can use us, no matter how dark a history we have written. God’s grace can shine light across any darkness and bring forth new and exciting things. We just need to be open to God’s loving and transforming grace.

Thanks to Fr. John Ardis, CSP who spearheaded this project when he was pastor here. Thanks to Vincent Ho, who gave a grand gift in honor of his late wife MJ (Mary Jean) to restore this particular window. Thanks to Margaret Pederson (Sea of Glass Studios), whose expert training in stained glass windows, enabled her to restore our window to last another 100 years. Thanks to Rick Riley who carefully removed the window and has now carefully reinstalled the restored window.

As part of your pilgrimage to Old St. Mary’s Cathedral,
consider spending some prayerful time
before the image of the Conversion of St. Paul.

Installing the newly restored window