Casting brilliant light

St. Mary’s window restoration reflects history of resilient faith, community
This stained-glass depiction of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is one of the windows project manager Olivier Fournier and his crew restored at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. More photos are inside on page 3. COURTESY PHOTO
This stained-glass depiction of Jesus as the Good Shepherd is one of the windows project manager Olivier Fournier and his crew restored at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. More photos are inside on page 3. COURTESY PHOTO

For several weeks within the chapel of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Lampasas, one could hear the lyrical ring of French spoken under the dappled light filtering through the stained-glass windows. It was an experience harkening back to the chapels and cathedrals of the Old World.

Frenchman Olivier Fournier, the project manager with Willet Stained Glass Studios, has decades of experience in the art…