LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt
OUTER ARCH
• First archivolt: April holds corn, May falcoln on fist, June mower goes to fields with scythe and whetstone, July taking flax to be steeped in water
• Second archivolt: Pieces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini
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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.
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West facade of Notre Dame de Chartres
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Window 042 - Saint Cheron (restored)
• Row 05: Speaks to listeners; heals victim of a chariot accident (caused by the demon [gremlin?] near the wheel).
• Row 06: He is beset by robbers near Chartres; he is beheaded, but picks up his head and walks.
• Row 07: He reaches the site of his burial, across the Eure river; He later appears to an abbot (Aper) to designate his tomb's location.
• Row 08: Those healed by the saint; Body moved to a new tomb, Bishop Pappolus overseeing it.
Healing King Clothaire's Son
• Row 09: King Clothaire's son is ill; the saint appears to son and a priest while they are on pilgrimage to Tours.
• Row 10: Hawking party; the son healed on his return?
Bishop and the Abby of St. Cheron
• Row 11: Bishop Pappolus offers a new chalice to the monastery; The abbot of St. Cheron's abby returns with it.
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Chartres, north side, right portal. These are OT types or prefigurements of Christ.
LINTEL
Solomon judges the two women and the baby; servant draws sword to slay child on the far left.
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Window 058 - Prodigal Son
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 06: Attaches himself to somone; sent to herd swine; decides to arise and go to his Father.
• Row 07: Travels home; Father runs out to greet him; servant brings the best robe.
• Row 08: Killing the fatted calf; Feast prepared; Father comes out to speak with the eldest son.
• Row 09: The feast, with father, eldest, and youngest son together. (An optimistic ending which is left unstated in the gospel.)
• Row 10: Christ with angels.
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Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)
• Row 01: Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien enters service with nobility.
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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.
(Lower side half moons)
• 16-17: Nicholas addressing the three princes, Nepotian, Ursus and Apilion; The three princes saved by Nicholas carrying gifts from the Emperor. [Houvet saw this as distributing the corn of previous.]
(Upper side half moons)
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.
(Upper cloverleaf)
• 20: Nicholas saves a baby from boiling, a miracle.
• 21-22: Couple's only child falls overboard on trip to Nicholas' shrine; They find the child safe when they arrive at the shrine.
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Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Henry Noblet, the donor, as deacon praying to Mary; the same donor now as canon praying to Christ.
• Row 02: Simon and Jude, missionary companions, confront Persian magicians.
• Row 03: Baradach offers sacrifice to idol for success in battle; another idol is consulted about the wisdom of attacking invading Hindus from India, but there is no response due to the two saints' presence.
• Row 04: Simon and Jude taken before general Warardac; they pray the idol will speak and reveal its impotence (note God's hand blessing them).
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Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)
15th century flamboyant gothic.
• Lower rows: Donor (Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme) and wife on far right. Other members of royal family.
• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.
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