Window 041 - Saint Stephen Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned (partially visible). • Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death. • Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body. • Row 08: Juliana mistakes Stephen's body for that of her husband, and takes it home.
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 06: James sends his cloak to free Filetus from the spell; the demon thus driven out weeps as he responds to the saint's power. • Row 07: Hermogenes summons two demons to capture James • Row 08: James overpower Hermogenes' control, and commands the demons to bring Hermogenes to James (2 panels). • Row 09: Hermogenes is brought to James and Filetus. • Row 10: James teaches Hermogenes; the magician is converted and decides to burn his magic texts. • Row 11: James tells him to cast the texts into the sea; Hermogenes and Filetus plead for James' forgiveness. • Row 12: Hermogenes destroys an idol.
† Window 145 - North rose: Rose of France glorifying the Virgin (restored)
Virgin in center with Infant Jesus. Surrounded by four doves, four angels, and four Thrones. These are followed by twelve kings of Judah, Mary's ancestors. The outer ring contains twelve minor prophets.
The window was donated while Queen Blanche was regent of France (circa 1230). The arms of France alternating with Castile are seen below the rose itself. The entire ensemble is a none-too-subtle bit of royal propaganda, with Mary (the Queen of Heaven) at the center of it all. Note too that the figures below the rose in the lancets contrast a legitimate righteous sovereign with corrupt, foolish, or fallen ones. Blanche seems to have wanted no doubt about how she ought to be considered.
†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)
• Window 145C - North side, far left lancet: Melchizedek standing over Nebuchadnezzar (true king over the false Babylonian pretender to world-lordship, worshipping idol of his dream).
• Window 145B - North side, near left lancet: King David standing over King Saul (the chosen king over the apostate king rejected by God, who dies via suicide in despair).
• Window 145A - North side, central lancet: Saint Anne holding Infant Mary. Beneath this are the arms of France.
• Window 145D - North side, near right lancet: Solomon over Jeroboam, who worships golden calf (wise king over the fool who worshipped idols and abandoned the LORD).
• Window 145E - North side, far right lancet: Aaron above Pharoah, covered by the Red Sea (true priesthood and power over the false).
