Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right. • Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window • Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed • Medallion 3 (small-missing): Jesus receives soul (small child). • Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top). • Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers • Medallion 6: Mary placed in the tomb surrounded by apostles. • Medallion 7 (small): Mary's bodily assumption to heaven, flanked by two angels. • Medallion 8: Jesus crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven. • Medallion 9 (small): Angels bear the crown.
• Row 02: Roman Emperor Constantine sends messenger to Charlemagne; the Emperor has had a dream of Charlemagne conquering Jerusalem. • Diamond 03: Charlemagne, victorious, is greeted by Constantine. • Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found. • Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Row 10: Crusaders battle Moors; Miracle of the Flowering Lances: the night prior to battle, those fated to die had flowers appear on their lances, proof of their blessed state as future martyrs. • Diamond 11: Roland battles King Marsile of the Saracens [some sources say batles giant Ferragus/Ferracutus, but the armor does not match]. • Row 12: Rolland kills giant Ferragus/Ferracutus; Ganelon urges Charlemagne to return home to France. • Circle 13: Rolland tries to break his sword Durendal, then strives to blow the oliphant (horn) to summon Charlemagne (Rolland is represented twice in the scene). • Row 14: Baudouin cannot find water for the dying Rolland; Baudouin tells Charlemagne of Rolland's death.
[Mass of St Giles--most of the story is found in Window 022.]
• Diamond 15: Saint Giles celebrates mass, and angel delivers a scroll with Charlemagne's unconfessed sins upon it. • Row/Corners 16: Angels with censers.
Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)
Bottom to top; left to right:
• Row 04: (Left half moon) Thomas and Abbanes land in Andropolis, India; (Right half moon) The butler goes out to get water, and is eaten by a lion. A dog bites of the hand the struck Thomas and brings it into the feast (not shown in this shot). • Row 05: (Bottom of clover) Gundophorus of India entrusts Thomas with funds to build a palace (sequentially is between the two panels in next row).. • Row 06: Abbanes presents Thomas to King Gundophorus; king then departs (after making Thomas his architect--see next row). • Row 07: (Left half moon) Thomas gives money not used in church-building (see next) to the poor; (upper quadrant of clover) Thomas builds churches instead of a palace for the king.; (Right half moon) King returns and is not happy; he jails Thomas as prelude to his execution [story skips to row 9] • Row 08: Angel shows the recently-deceased brother of the king the palace or mansion in heaven that Thomas is building for the king by building churches and feeding the poor [now to second panel of row 9]. • Row 09: Gad, brother to the king, dies and soul goes to heaven [back to row 8]; Gad is raised from the dead, and helps Thomas reconcile with his brother, the king. • Row 10 (top of clover): Thomas teaches and baptizes the king. • Row 11: (Half moons row) Thomas is later captured by King Mygdeus, stripped, and tortured; he throws the apostle into a furnace, which miraculously cools. • Row 12: King Mygdeus commands Thomas to worship an idol in the temple of the Sun.
Bottom to top, left to right. (The first 5 rows are modern as of 1872, marked '*').
• Row 01*: Peter speaks to men; Peter raises the dead (see last panel of row 8). • Row 02*: A saint is crucified; Jesus speaks to an apostle. • Row 03*: Two apostles pray while idols fall; Apostle sleeps on ground (see last panel of row 7). • Row 04*: Apostles speaks to a group; Saint praying is struck with clubs.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Row 10: Crusaders battle Moors; Miracle of the Flowering Lances: the night prior to battle, those fated to die had flowers appear on their lances, proof of their blessed state as future martyrs. • Diamond 11: Roland battles King Marsile of the Saracens [some sources say batles giant Ferragus/Ferracutus, but the armor does not match]. • Row 12: Rolland kills giant Ferragus/Ferracutus; Ganelon urges Charlemagne to return home to France. • Circle 13: Rolland tries to break his sword Durendal, then strives to blow the oliphant (horn) to summon Charlemagne (Rolland is represented twice in the scene). • Row 14: Baudouin cannot find water for the dying Rolland; Baudouin tells Charlemagne of Rolland's death.
[Mass of St Giles--most of the story is found in Window 022.]
• Diamond 15: Saint Giles celebrates mass, and angel delivers a scroll with Charlemagne's unconfessed sins upon it. • Row/Corners 16: Angels with censers.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Circle 13: Rolland tries to break his sword Durendal, then strives to blow the oliphant (horn) to summon Charlemagne (Rolland is represented twice in the scene). • Row 14: Baudouin cannot find water for the dying Rolland; Baudouin tells Charlemagne of Rolland's death (partially obscured).
[Mass of St Giles--most of the story is found in Window 022.]
• Diamond 15: Saint Giles celebrates mass, and angel delivers a scroll with Charlemagne's unconfessed sins upon it. • Row/Corners 16: Angels with censers.
Bottom to top, left to right. (The first 5 rows are modern as of 1872, marked '*').
• Row 01*: Jesus gives keys to Saint Peter; Peter speaks to men; Peter raises the dead (see last panel of row 8). • Row 02*: Peter arrives at a town; a saint is crucified; Jesus speaks to an apostle. • Row 03*: An apostle and two men; Two apostles pray while idols fall; Apostle sleeps on ground (see last panel of row 7). • Row 04*: Jesus speaks with apostle; Apostles speaks to a group; Saint praying is struck with clubs. • Row 05*: Two apostles speak; Apostle is lead to martyrdom; Apostle prays while menaced with a drawn sword.
SAINT ANDREW
Some panels have been replaced out of order, and some salvaged from the lower five rows; the story is easier to follow if the panels are swapped as indicated (** and ***).
• Row 06: Andrew prays before his cross (**); Andrew restores sight and gives a cloak (they meet in the first panel of row 13); Andrew gives communion (***). • Row 07: Slays serpent that vomits blood; Has proconsul's wife go to raise the child from the dead; Saint Peter and Saint John appear to Andrew and tell him of his coming martyrdom. • Row 08: Andrew intercedes for a young man falsely accused of incest [likely from the lower 5 rows of the window]; Andrew tells others he will be martyred (***); Demetrius' servant raised from dead. • Row 09: Proconsul Aegeas orders Andrew out of prison (two panels); Andrew appears before the proconsul. • Row 10: Andrew meets a blind beggar (see row 6, second panel); (**) Andrew bound to his cross; Others report (criticize?) Andrew's fate to Aegeas. • Row 11: Repeat of last panel of row 9--Andrew before proconsul; Death of Andrew; Proconsul is tormented by demons and dies. • Row 12: Jesus between two angels with censers. == Window 034 - The Apostles (restored, detail)
Some modern frames, marked (*)
• Row 01: Bakers, donors of the window • Row 02: John 1: 35-40 --> Je
Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window • Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed • Medallion 3 (small): Jesus receives soul (small child). • Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top). • Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers • Medallion 6:
Window 007 - Death and Assumption of Mary (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top). • Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers • Medallion 6: Mary placed in the tomb surrounded by apostles. • Medallion 7 (small): Mary's bodily assumption to heaven, flanked by two angels. • Medallion 8: Jesus crowns Mary as Queen of Heaven. • Medallion 9 (small): Angels bear the crown.
