Editing Alabaster (section)

===Window panels===
When cut into thin sheets, alabaster is translucent enough to be used for small windows.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Reynolds|date=2002-08-06|title=Alabaster Gleams in Cathedral|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-aug-06-et-alabaster6-story.html|access-date=2020-10-17|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref> It was used for this purpose in Byzantine churches and later in [[medieval]] ones, especially in [[Italy]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Schibille |first=Nadine |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315586069 |title=Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Aesthetic Experience |date=2016-04-22 |publisher=Routledge |doi=10.4324/9781315586069 |isbn=978-1-317-12415-3}}</ref> Large sheets of Aragonese gypsum alabaster are used extensively in the [[Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels]],<ref name="AragonGov"/> dedicated in 2002 by the [[Roman Catholic Archbishop of Los Angeles|Los Angeles, California, Archdiocese]].<ref name="Windows">{{Cite web |title=Windows |url=https://olacathedral.org/window-s |access-date=2022-06-17 |website=Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels |language=en}}</ref> The cathedral incorporates special cooling to prevent the panes from overheating and turning opaque.<ref name="Windows"/> The ancients used the calcite type,<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/a/alab.html| title = Buffalo Architecture and History: Alabaster}}</ref> while the modern Los Angeles cathedral employs gypsum alabaster. There are also multiple examples of alabaster windows in ordinary village churches and monasteries in northern Spain.