Glass for the mind Glass has told stories from the beginning. In illiterate times, stained-glass windows in churches offered text and explanation of the unintelligible, Latin Mass. In the mid-19th century, the Catholic community in the Netherlands emancipated. The diocese of Roermond was restored, Catholic experience and culture flourished. The in this movement high-profile studios of architect Pierre Cuypers and glazier Frans Nicolas collaborated regularly from the 1850s on the creation of a Limburg style. Contemporary secularization, however, means that many glasses are losing function and place and spending their lives in small depots. At Bureau Europa you will soon be wandering through the Limburg glass depot yourself, looking for beautiful but discarded stained glass.