BIO: Since 1901, Beatrice (Elvery) Glenavy's vividly-colored window of St. Patrick was part of the chapel of the Dominican Convent in Dublin's Eccles Street until the nuns sold their buildings in 1984 to the nearby Mater Hospital. The windows, including a very fine one by Harry Clarke, have now been rehoused in the small chapel in their new home off Griffith Avenue. Beatrice Glenavy (nee Elvery) born in 1881, was the second daughter of a Dublin businessman whose family had originated from Spain where they were silk merchants. She attended the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art where Sir William Orpen (1878-1931) taught painting and later used Beatrice as a model. Of his pupil, Orpen wrote that she had "many gifts, much temperament and great ability. Her only fault was that the transmission of her thoughts from her brain to paper or canvas, clay or stained glass became so easy to her that all was said in a few hours. Nothing on earth could make her go on and try to improve on her first translation of her thought." When Sarah Purser (1848-1943) founded her studios An Tur Gloine (Tower of Glass) in 1903, she invited Beatrice Elvery to be one of the designers and her first commission of six windows was installed in the Convent of Mercy, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh in 1905. Beatrice married Gordon Campbell, Lord Glenavy in 1912 and they settled in London, returning to Ireland at the end of the war and she then concentrated on painting. The vibrant colors of her beautiful window with its robust outer border of fruit and foliage and inner more delicate niche containing the strong figure of St. Patrick in his rich russet and saffron robes as he gives a blessing to his people is a fine example of her work. Details such as the wheat and grapes and symbolizing bread and wine for Holy Communion remind us of the importance of the acceptance of different traditions and faiths in Ireland. Beatrice died in 1970. A reproduction of her lovely window can be found in the March-April 2000 issue of "Ireland of the Welcomes." .