The following is a stained glass window depicting Peter healing Tabitha from 1867 for the Southwark Cathedral, London:

Photo from Southwark Cathedral website

The top scene bears the inscription ‘Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life’; below St Peter is shown healing Tabitha at Joppa, and below again is the inscription ‘O that I had wings like a dove’ (Psalm 55) with a small boy and his kite. (Source: Southwark Cathedral website )

Stained glass is not just highly decorative, it’s a medium which has been used to express important religious messages for centuries. Literacy was not widespread in the medieval and Renaissance periods and the Church used stained glass and other artworks to teach the central beliefs of Christianity. In Gothic churches, the windows were filled with extensive narrative scenes in stained glass — like huge and colorful picture storybooks — in which worshipers could ‘read’ the stories of Christ and the saints and learn what was required for their religious salvation. (Source: Victoria and Albert Museum )