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Chartres, North side, right portal

INNER ARCH

• Second archivolt: life of Gideon

† Gideon wrings water from fleece;

Third archivolt: life of Judith (prefiguring Mary)

† Leaves town with servant;

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel (continued from left half of arch).

† Tobias marries Sarah, and they pray in bedroom on wedding night;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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†South side, lancets, left to right: demonstrates the OT as the foundation for the NT witness of Christ

• Window 095A - South side, central lancet: Mary with Infant Christ, beneath is arms of donor Dreux-Brittany.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #4 evangelists #Chartres #france #Infant Christ #Mary #TCS-photo #Win095A #cathedral #donors identified #lancet windows #restored #shoulders of giants #south side #stained glass #whole-windows

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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.
• 9: Nicholas in school.
• 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked.

(Side half-moons):

• 14-15: Nicholas convinces sailors to provide a famine-stricken down with corn.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Jews #Myra #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #Win060 #cathedral #charity #donors identified #miracles #restored #shrine #stained glass