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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 055
Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (unrestored).
• Row 07: Outraged at the temple's loss, pagans beat Apollinaris to death; saint's funeral; Christians of Ravenna mourn his passing.
Celestial hierarchy (lowest to highest):
• Row 08: Angels (I); Principals (III); Archangels (II).
• Row 09: Powers (IV); Virtues (V); Dominions (VI).
• Row 10: Cherubim (VIII); Thrones (VII); Seraphim (IX).
• Row 11: Christ, with angels worshipping him.
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Window 014 - Temptation of Christ, Marriage at Cana, Blue Virgin (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right
• Row 02: Marriage at Cana: Jesus goes to marriage feast; at the feast; Mary tells Jesus they've run out of wine.
• Row 03: Marriage at Cana: Mary tells servants to do whatever Jesus tells them; Jesus turns water into wine; Servant takes wine to the feast's governor.
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Window 064 - Noah (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right
• Row 14: Planting of first vines (made into wine in previous row); Shem and Japheth (with wives) kneel to pray.
• Row 15: Angel, Rainbow, Angel.
• Row 16: Angel, Angel.
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Chartres, north side, right portal, archivolt
OUTER ARCH
• First archivolt: July taking flax to be steeped in water, August harvest, September tread grapes, October sowing
• Second archivolt: Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra
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Chartres West Exterior Slides 037
Chartres west side, right portal, tympanum
• First archivolt: angels.
• Second archivolt: Euclid, Geometry.
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Chartres, north side, center portal
INNER ARCH
• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]
Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.
(15) Adam and Eve make fig leaf aprons
(16) God appears to judge Adam and Eve's sin (also carrying book as previous when he gave them law in the garden)
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Censing Angel
Window 121 - 1st left, clerestory, apse: Aaron (restored)
Angel with Censer.
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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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