As you enter La Nativité church, you see two magnificent stained-glass windows. But even more astonishing than their impressive beauty, age and remarkable preservation, is the original cost of making and installing them. Wait for the punch: $400. For both.
Now, yes, you could say that’s in 1865 dollars. But even allowing for inflation, can we imagine today the creation of such masterful works, with all the expertise, meticulousness, manpower and time it takes, for the total sum of just… $7,500 in 2023? Considering the challenges and technical limitations of the time, it seems that miracles were made elsewhere than in the Bible…