Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.
• Row 1 (bottom corners): Fishmongers donated the window. • Row 2: St. Anthony hears the gospel preached; he donates his goods to the poor. • Row 3: He leaves his sister in the care of nuns. • Row 4: A hermit teaches Anthony; he digs, manual labor as part of the hermit's life. • Row 5: Devil (green face and feet) tempts Saint Anthony; Anthony before his fire is tempted by the devil in the form of a woman (also in green dress).
• Row 6 (two circles): Negociates for passage on ship and sails to Egypt (2 panels).
† Central Diamond 3: Eustace and children driven from the boat, while boat captain retains his wife [story continues in row 9].
• Row 7: Eustace's two sons meet and recognize each other; Eustace converses with the emperor's messengers and they realize he is Placidas whom they have been sent to find [story continues row 10]. • Row 8: Emperor Trajan sends for Placidas (now Eustace); The messengers lodge with Eustace without recognizing him [story continues in row 11, right]. • Row 9 (two circles): Eustace fords a river; one child is carried off by pink lion, another attacked by wolf who is in his turn attacked by shepherds [story continues in row 8]. • Row 10: Two recruits (his sons) brought to Eustace but he does not recognize them [story continues in row 11, left]; EITHER family celebrates their reunion OR the messengers tell Eustace's friends of his exploits [story continues in Central Diamond 4].
† Central Diamond 4: Eustace, wife, and children re-united [story continues row 12, left].
• Row 11: Eustace's kidnapped wife leaves to find him [story continues in row 10, right]; Eustace's son selected for military service [story continues row 10, left]. • Row 12: Roman emperor thanks his idols for bringing victory to Eustace; Eustace will not worship the idols. • Row 13: Eustace's execution ordered (also in round panel directly above); servants carry out the emperor's execution order (see also round panel directly above).
†Central Diamond 5: Eustace and family are martyred by being burned in a bull-shaped cauldron.
• Row 01: Carpenters; Cartwrights and Coopers as donors • Row 02: Joiners • Row 03: Julien with his family; he enters service with nobility. • Row 04: He waits at table. • Row 05: He attends his dying Lord (note last rites); he is raised out of servitude. • Row 06: Master dies; Julien is married. • Row 07: Julien's wedding feast. • Row 08: Julien leads troops to war; Julien defeats enemy. • Row 09: He speaks with a town's defender. • Row 10: Julien cannot sleep; he leaves the battle field and goes home. • Row 11: Julien arrives home unnoticed; thinking his wife has betrayed him, he unwittingly slays his parents. • Row 12: Julien's wife tells him of his mistake. • Row 13: Funeral of parents; Julien views his bloody handiwork. • Row 14: Julien and wife become pilgrims (to expiate his sin?). • Row 15: Crossing via ferry; Building pilgrim hostel. • Row 16: Welcoming pilgrims; washing pilgrims' feet. • Row 17: Crossing via ferry; Building pilgrim hostel. • Row 18: Christ approaches river in disguise. • Row 19: Unaware, Julien rows Christ across the river; his wife holds up lantern on the bank to guide them. • Row 20: Julien and his wife die and their souls go to heaven. ====== Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)
Bottom to top; left to right:
• Row 01: "Doubting" Thomas feeling Christ's wounds after the resurrection, flanked by the fleur-de-lis. This panel was added in the 13th century, for reasons that are unknown. • Row 02: At Caesarea, Christ assigns Thomas to evangelize India. • Row 03: Jesus introduces Thomas to Abbanes, envoy of Gundophorus--the King of India--who is seeking an architect; Thomas and Abbanes travel by ship to India. • Row 04: (Left half moon) Thomas and Abbanes land in Andropolis, India; (upper quadrant of clover) At a wedding feast, the chief butler hits Thomas; (Right half moon) The butler goes out to get
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.
