LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Window 006 - Good Samaritan
Bottom to top, left to right. Circles start at 6 o'clock, proceed left to right:
• Quadrant 4: Jesus tells a parable.
• Quadrant 5: Man leaves Jerusalem for Jericho
• Center 6, quadrant 7: Thieves leap out to attack and rob him
• Quadrant 8: Priest and levite pass by without helping.
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Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right:
• Row 04: March (prune vines); Aries.
• Row 05: May & Gemeni combined.
• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
• Row 09: August (thresh wheat); Virgo.
• Row 10: September (harvest and tramp grapes); Libra.
• Row 11: October (place wine in barrels) & Scorpio.
• Row 12: November (slaughter hog); Saggitarius
• Row 13: December (feasting) Capricorn
• Row 14: Christ with Alpha and Omega (all encompassing, even of the tasks of the year and the cosmos represented by the zodiac's progression).
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Window 002 - Life of Christ
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 08: Triumphal entry to Jerusalem (3 frames).
• Row 09: Christ in Glory flanked by two angels.
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Window 004 - Saint John the Divine [author of Revelation / the Apocalypse] (restored, detail)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01 [single]: Flight to Egypt (misplaced, does not really fit with the rest of the window).
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†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).
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RIGHT to left:
Chapelle de la Sancta Camisia [veil worn by Mary at the Nativity]
• Window 040 - Saint Pantaleon
• Window 041 - Saint Stephen
• Window 042 - Saint Cheron
• Window 043 - Saint Savinian, Saint Potentian, and a Woman-Martyr.
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†North side, lancets, left to right: True versus false sovereigns (restored)
• Win145D, donors identified, north side, lancet window, Solomon, Jeroboam, golden calf, idols
• Win145E, donors identified, north side, lancet window, Aaron, Pharoah, Red Sea
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