LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Shoemakers working as donor; Presenting the window from donors.
• Row 02: Stephen made a deacon by two apostles.
• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned (partially visible).
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.
• Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body.
• Row 08: Juliana mistakes Stephen's body for that of her husband, and takes it home.
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Chartres, south side, left.
TYMPANUM
Christ crowned between two angels. (He is the supreme or ultimate martyr.)
LINTEL
Stephen is led out of the city to be stoned, and is then stone. (Story begins on left archivolt and finisheds on right, neither shown here.)
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Shoemakers working as donor; Presenting the window from donors.
• Row 02: Stephen made a deacon by two apostles.
• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
• Row 04: Two false witnesses accuse Stephen before the Sanhedrin; He refutes the charge of blasphemy.
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned.
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.
• Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body.
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Left portal, "Bay of the Martyrs"
Left jamb (L - R)
• St. Stephen (deacon's dress)
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
• Row 04: Two false witnesses accuse Stephen before the Sanhedrin; He refutes the charge of blasphemy.
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned.
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.
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Chartres, south side, left
Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]
• Saint Stephen [deacon's dress] (His story is also told in the lintel.)
• Saint Clement [pope's dress]
• Saint Lawrence [deacon's dress]
• Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 11: Demons try to sink the ship, but the sailors invoke Saint Stephen, and are spared.
• Row 12: Ship arrives at shore; A crowd gathers to receive the body.
• Row 13: Stephen's body/relics are taken into the city; the Patriarch of Constantinople comes to meet it.
• Row 14: Stephen's soul is carried to heaven by the angels.
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