• Row 04: Mary is schooled (note the whipping stick if needed; 2 panels); Mary betrothed to Saint Joseph. • Row 05: Mary and Joseph married; the Annunciation; The Visitation. • Row 06: Nativity; Annunciation to Shepherds; Presentaton at the Temple. • Row 07: Herod consults experts; Adoration of the Magi (2 panels). • Row 08: Flight into Egypt; Massacre of the Innocents; Herod orders the Massacre. • Row 09: Jesus Christ with worshipers.
• Row 05: Baradach's priest asks idol how the war will turn out; the apostles predict the war will be prevented the next day. • Row 06: Baradach arrests the apostles, likely at the instigation of Persian soothsayers (both panels). • Row 07: Peace envoys from India arrive (both panels). • Row 08: The apostles teach and convert many (both panels). • Row 09: Persian magicians create serpents as evidence of their miracle-working--Simon and Jude pray that they will be bitten but not unto death. • Row 10: Chariots of the pagan moon and sun (which the apostles would not worship) • Row 11: Two angels (modern) replaced an older scene showing the saints' martyrdom.
• Row 01 (half moons): Bankers, as donors • Row 02: Joseph's dream, with sun, moon, and stars bowing down to him. • Row 03: Jacob sends Joseph to his brothers; Brothers plot against Joseph • Row 04: Brothers put into pit. • Row 05 (half moons): Sold to Ishmaelite traders as slave; they bring the coat of many colors to Jacob. • Row 06: Sold to Potiphar; Potiphar's wife tempts him • Row 07: She accuses him to Potiphar. • Row 08: Potiphar arrests Joseph; Has him thrown into prison. • Row 09: Pharaoh dreams • Row 10: Seven fat sheep, seven thin cattle of Pharaoh's dream; Meanwhile, in prison, Joseph interprets dreams of cupbearer and baker. • Row 11: Joseph interprets dream, made governor; Graineries are filled for lean times. • Row 12: Egyptians pour grain into Nile. • Row 13: Jacob sends sons to Egypt looking for food; They travel to Egypt. • Row 14: Joseph receives his brothres. • Row 15 (two half moons): Joseph hides cup in Benjamin's bag, and it is discovered. • Row 16 (two half moons and lower diamond): Brothers return and bring Jacob to Israel (three panels total). • Row 17: Jacob and sons leave for Egypt; Jacob and Joseph are reunited. • Row 18: Christ in Glory.
Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored) Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.
(Side half moons): • 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.
(Upper cloverleaf): • 23-25: A shyster swears by St. Nicholas he will return gold to a Jewish money-lender; He gives staff to the Jew and claims he has repaid his loan; Shyster and staff crushed by a cart, getting his just deserts. • 26: Jewish merchant strikes St. Nicholas' statue because the saint did not protect his valuables.
Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• 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.
Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored)
NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).
• Row 12: (Bottom row): Blacksmiths as donors. • Row 11: Samson carries gates of Gaza; Christ's body being annointed; David slays lion to protect sheep [some argue for Samson slaying lion, but sheep make me think likely David. On the other hand, the other side panels are often of the same characters, so I suppose a repeat of Sampson would fit that pattern. - GLS] • Row 10: Elijah raises son of widow of Sareptha; Jacob blesses Ephraim and Manasseh; Elijah meets widow of Sareptha. • Row 09: King David with pelican feeding young on her own blood. • Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac. • Row 07: Jonah near Ninevah (*). • Row 06: Moses shows brass serpent; Adam collects blood at the foot of the cross (*); Israelites mark their doorposts with blood of the lamb (tau). • Row 05: The Church (the NT, new faith); Crucifixion with Longinus and Stephaton (*); Synagogue (the OT, old faith). • Row 04: Gideon sees angel (*). • Row 03: Christ is mocked and crowned with thorns; Israelite scouts return from promised land with evidence of its richeness; The Scourging of Christ. • Row 02: Women weep at the Crucifixion; Jesus carries the cross (*); Soldiers preparing for the crucifixion. • Row 01: Christ (with candelabra) (*).
