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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 120

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 120

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• 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.

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Chartres South Exterior Slides 055

Chartres South Exterior Slides 055

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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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 117

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 117

Window 042 - Saint Cheron (restored)

• Row 03: Saint Cheron turns away from the young woman his parents have arranged for him to marry; She marries someone else.
• Row 04: Cheron enters the clergy, he exorcises a demon; he heals a blind man.
• 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.

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ChartresGlass Box P Slides 010

ChartresGlass Box P Slides 010

Window 063 - Saint Lubin / Leobinus (restored)

• Surrounding border: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.

† Center circles (continued uses of wine):

• Circle 03: Celler master brings wine to be consecrated.
• Circle 04: Highest use of wine -- the Eucharist.
• Circle 05: Christ, with Alpha and Omega.

† Left to right, top to bottom (excluding central circles and border):

• Row 04: Lubin's father? procures an alphabet, or a churchman teaches him to read; Lubin studies while his friends make merry (a nice contrast for a wine cryer's window!).
• Row 05: Lubin enters a monastery; Nileffus advises Lubin to visit other monastaries to expand his learning.
• Row 06: Lubin, Nileffus and others approach another monastery, Saint Avil in Perche; Lubin et al. leave monastery (?) or welcome others to the monastery (?).
• Row 07: Lubin et al. blessed by Saint Avitus [story continues next row up, left side]; Lubin is appointed bishop of Chartres [story continues next row up, right side].
• Row 08: Avitus appoints Lubin cellerer, as he hands over the keys (celler being a nice wine cryer's touch) [story continues row down, right side]; Now-Bishop Lubin leaves on pastoral visit.
• Row 09: Bishop Lubin sprinkles holy water on a house as an exorcism two panels).
• Row 10: Christ with alpha and omega.

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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 076

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 076

Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (unrestored)

Top to bottom, left to right:

• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
• Row 09: August (thresh wheat); Virgo.
• Row 10: September (harvest and tramp grapes); Libra.
• Row 11: October (place wine in barrels) & Scorpio.
• Row 12: November (slaughter hog); Saggitarius
• Row 13: December (feasting) Capricorn
• Row 14: Christ with Alpha and Omega (all encompassing, even of the tasks of the year and the cosmos represented by the zodiac's progression).

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Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Win017 #alpha and omega #calendar of months #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #stained glass #unrestored #zodiac