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P1020557

Window 063 - Saint Lubin / Leobinus (restored, detail)

• Row 01: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.
• Surrounding border: Wine cryers or tavern keepers offering wine for sale.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Nileffus #Saint Avil in Perche #Saint Avitus #Saint Leobinus #Saint Lubin #TCS-photo #Win063 #alpha and omega #bishop #cathedral #Detail #devils and demons #donors identified #exorcism #interior #monastery #monk #reading #restored #stained glass

IMG 5141

IMG 5141

Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 06: Anthony asks friend to bring him bread in preparation for his hermitage in the desert; Devils come to attack Anthony in the hermitage.
• Row 07 (center): This is slightly out of sequence: Anthony's friend brings bread and finds him immobilized by the pain of the scourging given in the next row up.
• Row 08: Demons scourge Anthony with whips; Anthony appears dead (like a corpse, so his friend carries the immobilized saint back to the desert on his back
• Row 09: Anthony visits Paul the Anchorite as a crow feeds them; Anthony studies alone in his cell.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Athanasius #Chartres #france #Saint Anthony of the Desert #Saint Paul the Anchorite #TCS-photo #Win013 #cathedral #charity #devils and demons #hermit #miracles #nuns #restored #stained glass

Clerestory Windows South Chartres

Clerestory Windows South Chartres

Window 105 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, lancet: Nativity, Flight into Egypt.

All borders in the choir are modern.

Donor, Colinus de camera regis, playing chess with another man.
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Window 106 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, lancet: Saint John the Evangelist and Saint James Major, adoration of the magi

All borders in the choir are modern.

Donor, Bouchard de Marty
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Window 107 - Clerestory, west end of south choir, small rose: Knight

Knight, member of Beaumont family.
There are a total of 7 knights or lords on either side of the choir, leading to the sanctuary.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adoration of the Magic #Bouchard de Marty #Chartres #france #Latin phrases #Nativity #Saint James Major #Saint John the Evangelist #TCS-photo #Win105 #Win106 #Win107 #cathedral #choir #clerestory #donors identified #flight into Egypt #knights #lancet #modern-glass #restored #small-rose #stained glass