This 19th-century stained glass window in the Church of Saint-Godard (Église Saint-Godard), Rouen, Normandy, France, commemorates Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on December 8, 1854, in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.
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This stained glass register, from the window Proclamation of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception at Saint-Godard in Rouen, centers on the biblical scene of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden — a striking inclusion within a window devoted to Marian theology.
In this middle panel, Adam and Eve are beside the Tree of Knowledge, with the serpent coiled around it. This depicts the Fall of Man, the origin of original sin.
