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Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)

Bottom to top; left to right:

• Row 04: (Left half moon) Thomas and Abbanes land in Andropolis, India; (Right half moon) The butler goes out to get water, and is eaten by a lion. A dog bites of the hand the struck Thomas and brings it into the feast (not shown in this shot).
• Row 05: (Bottom of clover) Gundophorus of India entrusts Thomas with funds to build a palace (sequentially is between the two panels in next row)..
• Row 06: Abbanes presents Thomas to King Gundophorus; king then departs (after making Thomas his architect--see next row).
• Row 07: (Left half moon) Thomas gives money not used in church-building (see next) to the poor; (upper quadrant of clover) Thomas builds churches instead of a palace for the king.; (Right half moon) King returns and is not happy; he jails Thomas as prelude to his execution [story skips to row 9]
• Row 08: Angel shows the recently-deceased brother of the king the palace or mansion in heaven that Thomas is building for the king by building churches and feeding the poor [now to second panel of row 9].
• Row 09: Gad, brother to the king, dies and soul goes to heaven [back to row 8]; Gad is raised from the dead, and helps Thomas reconcile with his brother, the king.
• Row 10 (top of clover): Thomas teaches and baptizes the king.
• Row 11: (Half moons row) Thomas is later captured by King Mygdeus, stripped, and tortured; he throws the apostle into a furnace, which miraculously cools.
• Row 12: King Mygdeus commands Thomas to worship an idol in the temple of the Sun.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #13th century #Abbanes #Andropolis #Chartres #france #Gundophorus #India #Mygdeus #Saint Thomas #TCS-photo #Win046 #angels #cathedral #censers #charity #firey furnace #healing #idols #martyrs #pilgrims #restored #stained glass

Window 054 - Saint Germain of Auxerre [pre AD 1236] (restored)

In many places, the left right pairing shows a "cause and effect" relationship. The window is difficult to photograph with the east wall buttresses of the north trancept, and the "Our Lady of the Pillar" adoration with candles et al. in front of it.

• Row 05: Demon spreads disease; Germain heals his flock.
• Row 06: Saint Germain and Saint Loup sail to England despite a demon-raised tempest; Saint Germain calms the storm.
• Row 07: Saint Germain preaches in England; he heals a blind girl.
• Row 08: Demons set fire to area in which the two missionaries are living (2 panels).
• Row 09: Germain has horse stolen en route to Italy; Thief brings the horse back and Germain blesses him.
• Row 10: Germain dies at Revenna; Soul ascends to heaven.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #England #france #Revenna #Saint Germain of Auxerre #Saint Loup #TCS-photo #Win054 #cathedral #date estimate #devils and demons #donors identified #exorcism #healing #miracles #possession #restored #souls #stained glass #theft

Window 054 - Saint Germain of Auxerre [pre AD 1236] (restored)

In many places, the left right pairing shows a "cause and effect" relationship. The window is difficult to photograph with the east wall buttresses of the north trancept, and the "Our Lady of the Pillar" adoration with candles et al. in front of it.

• Row 01: Geoffrey Chardonel, canon of Chartres as donor; Saint Germain as student.
• Row 02: Chosen to be bishop and taken from his home against his will [removed in this shot]; Consecrated as bishop.
• Row 03: Tax-collector needs help finding lost money; Germain speaks to a demonically-possessed man.
• Row 04: Germain celebrates mass, and drives out the demon, letting the man confess his theft; The thief repays the money.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #England #france #Revenna #Saint Germain of Auxerre #Saint Loup #TCS-photo #Win054 #cathedral #date estimate #devils and demons #donors identified #exorcism #healing #miracles #possession #restoration in progress #restored #souls #stained glass #theft

original (4295078071)

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Carpenters; Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien with his family; he enters service with nobility.
• Row 04: He waits at table.
• Row 05: He attends his dying Lord (note last rites); he is raised out of servitude.
• Row 06: Master dies; Julien is married.
• Row 07: Julien's wedding feast.
• Row 08: Julien leads troops to war; Julien defeats enemy.
• Row 09: He speaks with a town's defender.
• Row 10: Julien cannot sleep; he leaves the battle field and goes home.
• Row 11: Julien arrives home unnoticed; thinking his wife has betrayed him, he unwittingly slays his parents.
• Row 12: Julien's wife tells him of his mistake.
• Row 13: Funeral of parents; Julien views his bloody handiwork.
• Row 14: Julien and wife become pilgrims (to expiate his sin?).
• Row 15: Crossing via ferry; Building pilgrim hostel.
• Row 16: Welcoming pilgrims; washing pilgrims' feet.
• Row 17: Crossing via ferry; Building pilgrim hostel.
• Row 18: Christ approaches river in disguise.
• Row 19: Unaware, Julien rows Christ across the river; his wife holds up lantern on the bank to guide them.
• Row 20: Julien and his wife die and their souls go to heaven.
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Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)

Bottom to top; left to right:

• Row 01: "Doubting" Thomas feeling Christ's wounds after the resurrection, flanked by the fleur-de-lis. This panel was added in the 13th century, for reasons that are unknown.
• Row 02: At Caesarea, Christ assigns Thomas to evangelize India.
• Row 03: Jesus introduces Thomas to Abbanes, envoy of Gundophorus--the King of India--who is seeking an architect; Thomas and Abbanes travel by ship to India.
• Row 04: (Left half moon) Thomas and Abbanes land in Andropolis, India; (upper quadrant of clover) At a wedding feast, the chief butler hits Thomas; (Right half moon) The butler goes out to get

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #13th century #Abbanes #Andropolis #Chartres #france #Gundophorus #India #Jesus Christ #Mygdeus #Saint Julien the Hospitalier #Saint Thomas #TCS-photo #Win045 #Win046 #angels #cathedral #censers #charity #donors identified #firey furnace #healing #idols #interior #martyrs #pennance #pilgrim #pilgrims #restored #stained glass #whole-windows

Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)

Bottom to top; left to right:

• Row 07: (Left half moon) Thomas gives money not used in church-building (see next) to the poor; (Right half moon) King returns and is not happy; he jails Thomas as prelude to his execution [story skips to row 9]
• Row 08: Angel shows the recently-deceased brother of the king the palace or mansion in heaven that Thomas is building for the king by building churches and feeding the poor [now to second panel of row 9].
• Row 09: Gad, brother to the king, dies and soul goes to heaven [back to row 8]; Gad is raised from the dead, and helps Thomas reconcile with his brother, the king.
• Row 10: Thomas teaches and baptizes the king.
• Row 11: (Half moons row) Thomas is later captured by King Mygdeus, stripped, and tortured; he throws the apostle into a furnace, which miraculously cools.
• Row 12: King Mygdeus commands Thomas to worship an idol in the temple of the Sun.
• Row 13: Thomas commands the demon being worsehipped via the idol to destroy its own temple; In retaliation, the priest of the Sun kills Thomas with a blow from a sword.
• Row 14: Thomas' body is gathered and buried.
• Row 15: People (pilrgrims?) look to the saint's tomb.
• Row 16: (Half moons row) Pilgrims at the shrine, where miracles of healing are done.
• Row 17: The near-obligatory angels with censers.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #13th century #Abbanes #Andropolis #Chartres #france #Gundophorus #India #Mygdeus #Saint Thomas #TCS-photo #Win046 #angels #cathedral #censers #charity #firey furnace #healing #idols #martyrs #pilgrims #restored #stained glass

Window 046 - Saint Thomas the Apostle in India (restored)

Bottom to top; left to right:

• Row 01: "Doubting" Thomas feeling Christ's wounds after the resurrection, flanked by the fleur-de-lis. This panel was added in the 13th century, for reasons that are unknown.
• Row 02: At Caesarea, Christ assigns Thomas to evangelize India.
• Row 03: Jesus introduces Thomas to Abbanes, envoy of Gundophorus--the King of India--who is seeking an architect; Thomas and Abbanes travel by ship to India.
• Row 04: (Left half moon) Thomas and Abbanes land in Andropolis, India; (upper quadrant of clover) At a wedding feast, the chief butler hits Thomas; (Right half moon) The butler goes out to get water, and is eaten by a lion. A dog bites of the hand the struck Thomas and brings it into the feast.
• Row 06: (Bottom of clover) Gundophorus of India entrusts Thomas with funds to build a palace (sequentially is between the two panels in next row)..
• Row 05: Abbanes presents Thomas to King Gundophorus; king then departs (after making Thomas his architect--see next row).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #13th century #Abbanes #Andropolis #Chartres #france #Gundophorus #India #Mygdeus #Saint Thomas #TCS-photo #Win046 #angels #cathedral #censers #charity #firey furnace #healing #idols #martyrs #pilgrims #restored #stained glass