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P1110386

P1110386

Chartres, north side, center portal

JAMB FIGURES

Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.

duplicate (fkKqV9hbRNKHNPvqgVI8WQ)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Chartres #Elijah #Elisha #Eucharist #france #Isaac #Melchizedek #Moses #Sacrifice of Isaac #Shumanite woman #TCS-photo #angels #cathedral #Center #exterior #north side #Ram #restored #sculpture

St. Cheron Window South-East Apsidal Chapel Chartres Cathedral

St. Cheron Window South-East Apsidal Chapel Chartres Cathedral

Window 042 - Saint Cheron (restored)

• 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.
• Row 07: He reaches the site of his burial, across the Eure river; He later appears to an abbot (Aper) to designate his tomb's location.
• Row 08: Those healed by the saint; Body moved to a new tomb, Bishop Pappolus overseeing it.

Healing King Clothaire's Son

• Row 09: King Clothaire's son is ill; the saint appears to son and a priest while they are on pilgrimage to Tours.
• Row 10: Hawking party; the son healed on his return?

Bishop and the Abby of St. Cheron

• Row 11: Bishop Pappolus offers a new chalice to the monastery; The abbot of St. Cheron's abby returns with it.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Bishop Pappolus #Chartres #france #King Clothaire #Saint Cheron #TCS-photo #Win042 #cathedral #funny #healings #martyr #relics #restored #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 125

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 125

Window 058 - Prodigal Son

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 06: Attaches himself to somone; sent to herd swine; decides to arise and go to his Father.
• Row 07: Travels home; Father runs out to greet him; servant brings the best robe.
• Row 08: Killing the fatted calf; Feast prepared; Father comes out to speak with the eldest son.
• Row 09: The feast, with father, eldest, and youngest son together. (An optimistic ending which is left unstated in the gospel.)
• Row 10: Christ with angels.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Prodigal Son #TCS-photo #Win058 #cathedral #date estimate #parable #stained glass #unrestored

IMG 5486

IMG 5486

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.

(Lower side half moons)

• 16-17: Nicholas addressing the three princes, Nepotian, Ursus and Apilion; The three princes saved by Nicholas carrying gifts from the Emperor. [Houvet saw this as distributing the corn of previous.]

(Upper side half moons)
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.

(Upper cloverleaf)
• 20: Nicholas saves a baby from boiling, a miracle.
• 21-22: Couple's only child falls overboard on trip to Nicholas' shrine; They find the child safe when they arrive at the shrine.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jews #Myra #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #Win060 #cathedral #charity #donors identified #miracles #restored #shrine #stained glass

P1020588

P1020588

original (4295078089)

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Henry Noblet, the donor, as deacon praying to Mary; the same donor now as canon praying to Christ.
• Row 02: Simon and Jude, missionary companions, confront Persian magicians.
• Row 03: Baradach offers sacrifice to idol for success in battle; another idol is consulted about the wisdom of attacking invading Hindus from India, but there is no response due to the two saints' presence.
• Row 04: Simon and Jude taken before general Warardac; they pray the idol will speak and reveal its impotence (note God's hand blessing them).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Baradach #Chartres #france #Hindu #India #Saint Jude #Saint Simon #TCS-photo #Win035 #cathedral #donors identified #idols #interior #magicians #martyrs #mercy #miracles #modern-glass #restored #soothsayers #stained glass

STB_9877

STB_9877

Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Lower rows: Donor (Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme) and wife on far right. Other members of royal family.
• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #15th century #Chartres #Coronation of the Virgin #Crucifixion #france #Jesus Christ #John the Baptist #Louis de Bourbon #Saint John the Divine #TCS-photo #Vendome #Win008 #cathedral #donors identified #last judgment #new imports #restored #stained glass

IMG 5475

IMG 5475

Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)

NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).

• 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).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Adam #Annointing of Christ's body #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Crucifixion #Elijah #Ephraim #Flagellation #france #Gideon #Isaac #Israelite scouts #Jacob #Jesus Christ #Jonah #King David #Longinus #Manasseh #Moses #Sacrifice of Isaac #Samson #Stephaton #TCS-photo #Win059 #angels #blood of the lamb #blood on doorposts #brass serpent #candelabra #cathedral #crown of thorns #descent from the cross #donors identified #pelican #promised land #restored #stained glass #the Church #the Synagogue #types of Christ #widow of Sareptha