Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:
• Row 01: Furrier as donor; Draper as donor measures cloth. • Row 02: Christ gives James a pilgrim's staff (perhaps assign to mission in Galacia?) • Row 03: Demon inspires Hermogenes (Almogines), a magician, to send his disciple, Filetus, to confront James; James preaches (!). • Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him. • Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic.
• Row 01: Saint Martin gives half of his cloak to a beggar; Cobbler preparing leather as donor; Christ thanks Martin in a dream and returns his cloak. • Row 02: Cobbler scraping hide as donor; Martin is baptized; Cobbler stitches shoe as donor. • Row 03: Martin revives a catachumen who died prior to baptism; Cobbler trimming sole of shoe as donor; Saint Hillaire makes Martin an exorcist. • Row 04: Martin is attacked by two ruffians, one saves his life; The brigands waiting to attack; Martin escapes by making a pine tree fall on the brigands. • Row 05: The people of Tours seek a new bishop (both sides); Martin ordained bishop (middle). • Row 06: Martin forces robber's soul out of a shrine, where it was being mistakenly honored as a martyr; People watch; Martin raises a child from the dead (some say he interrupts a country funeral to make sure they are not practicing paganism).
Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Panels 9,10,11: Samaritan binds his wounds, places the man on his donkey, and takes him to a waiting inn-keeper. - • Quadrant 12: Samaritan cares for wounded man at the inn. • Quadrant 13: God creates man, (breathing into Adam the breath of life?). • Center 14: Adam in paradise. • Quadrant 15: God makes woman from rib ('tsela') as Adam sleeps. The appearance of the legs matching both Adam and Eve is a beautiful bit of work, rich with symbolism. • Quadrant 16: God forbids the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil. Note the red serpent already coiled about the trunk. - • Panel 17: They sit under the tree (a first step toward sin, perhaps?). • Panel 18: Satan tempts them and they eat. Note the dark, ominous red background which echoes the serpent from Quadrant 16, and contrasts with the refreshing blue of the previous. • Panel 19: God calls to them, but they hide and make fig-leaf aprons.
• Quadrant 20: Cherubim drives them from the garden and tree of life. • Quadrant 21: Adam digs while Eve spins with a distaff. • Center 22: God/Christ judges their sin but also promises redemption. {? makes covenant with them) • Quadrant 23: Cain takes an axe to Abel's head; the first murder. Abel's name can be made out in text below the panel. Like Abel--and the man in the parable--we have fallen victim to a fallen world, and lie wounded and bleeding. • Quadrant 24: Christ sits to redeem and judge, surrounded by angels. Reminds us that he is the ultimate figure to whom the parable of the Samaritan points.
South porth, right portal, right side --"Bay of the Confessors"
Figures L - R • St. Gregory (pope dress) • St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church) • St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door. • St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].
• Malchus (lost ear to Peter's sword and healed by Jesus). • Judas' betrayal by a kiss. • Jesus' entry to Jerusalem seated on the colt. • Jesus being placed in the tomb.
TYMPANUM • Adoration of the Magi and then warned not to return to Herod.
LINTEL: • Left: Nativity • Right: Angel appears to shepherds.
JAMB FIGURES
• Left: Isaiah (prophet of Christ's coming), and then Annunciation (Gabriel treading on devil; Mary treading on serpent). • Right Daniel (another prophet of Christ's coming, outermost) with the Visitation nearer the door (Mary on a burning bush, symbol of the Immaculate Conception and Elizabeth).
INNER ARCH: • First archivolt: ten angels, lowest two on dragons, the rest on clouds • Second archivolt: four foolish virgins on left, four foolish on the right • Third archivolt: bottom on each side contain the other two virgins for a total of ten. It then has the virtues with vices underneath each figure. • Fourth archivolt: Twelve queens bearing scrolls that at one time bore their names; these are the fruits of the spirit as per Galatians 5:22-23.
OUTER ARCH:
• First archivolt: LEFT -- characteristics of a virtuous woman (Proverbs 31:10-31); RIGHT -- characteristics of woman who has chosen the contemplative life; • Second archivolt: the Beatitudes
