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South porth, right portal--"Bay of the Confessors"

Figures L - R

Left side
• St Laumer, monk of Perche [added at porch construction]
• St. Silvester (pope dress)
• St. Ambrose (bishop of Milan), converted St. Augustine and is the first person of whom we have record reading silently to himself, rather than aloud.
• St. Nicholas (bishop of Myra, from when Santa Claus).

Right side
• St. Gregory (pope dress)
• St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church)
• St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door.
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Ambrose #Saint Avitus #Saint Gregory #Saint Jerome #Saint Laumer #Saint Martin #Saint Nicholas #Saint Silvester #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #martyrs #Right #south side #unrestored

Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (restored).
Two rows of grisaille were inserted in 1328, replacing older glass. Its purpose was to honor the saints whose altar had been installed before it.

• Row 01: Grisaille quarrels and tituli identifying the saints in left of row 2; Inscription recording Canon Theirry's donation; Grisaille quarrels and tituli identifying the saints in panel 06 right of row 2.
• Row 02: Saints Quiricus (Cyr) and his mother, St Julitte, St Maur, St Radigonde; Canon Guillaume Theirry kneeling before the Virgin and Child; St Sulpice, St Mathurin de Laurchant, St Lifart slaying the dragon.

SAINT APOLLINARIS

• Row 03: Saint Apollinaris heals blind child (son of judge Thaurus?); Meets tribune of Ravenna; Heals tribune's wife.
• Row 04: Baptises tribune and his household; Goes into exile; heals woman possessed with evil spirit.
• Row 05: Apollinaris enters home of Rufus Patricius, Duke of Ravenna; Raises Rufus' daughter from the dead; Provost demands Apollinaris sacrifice to idols.
• Row 06: Angel visits the saint in prison; temple of Jupiter/Zeus collapses due to saints' prayer; Provost and others watch temple's destruction.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #14th century #Canon Guillame Theirry #Canon Theirry #Chartres #france #Infant Jesus #Mary #Saint Apollinaris #Saint Cyr (Quiricus) #Saint Julitte #Saint Lifart #Saint Mathurin de Laucchant #Saint Maur #Saint Radigonde #Saint Sulpice #TCS-photo #Win010 #cathedral #grisailles #idols #martyrs #miracles #restored #stained glass

Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 08: Physician and paralytic in city of Treves; Martin heals the paralytic while family/others look on (2 frames).
• Row 09: Martin and Roman proconsul Tetradius (center); Martin heals servant of proconsul (both sides).
• Row 10: Outside Paris Martin kisses a leper and cures him; Angel with censer; Martin with Emperor Maximus at banquet.
• Row 11: Angel with censer; Martin's death; Angel with censer.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Emperor Maximus #france #Jesus Christ #Paris #Saint Martin #TCS-photo #Tetradius #Win024 #cathedral #donors identified #exorcism #funeral #lepers #martyrs #miracles #restored #stained glass

Window 010 - Saint Apollinaris, Celestial Hierarchy, Grisaille (14th century) (restored).

Two rows of grisaille were inserted in 1328, replacing older glass. Its purpose was to honor the saints whose altar had been installed before it.

• Row 02: Saints Quiricus (Cyr) and his mother, St Julitte, St Maur, St Radigonde; Canon Guillaume Theirry kneeling before the Virgin and Child; St Sulpice, St Mathurin de Laurchant, St Lifart slaying the dragon.

SAINT APOLLINARIS

• Row 03: Saint Apollinaris heals blind child (son of judge Thaurus?); Meets tribune of Ravenna; Heals tribune's wife.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Ravenna #Saint Apollinaris #TCS-photo #Win010 #cathedral #grisailles #idols #martyrs #miracles #restored #stained glass

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude (restored, detail)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 10: Chariot of the pagan moon (which the apostles would not worship)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Chartres, south side, left

Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]

• Saint Stephen [deacon's dress] (His story is also told in the lintel.)
• Saint Clement [pope's dress]
• Saint Lawrence [deacon's dress]
• Saint Maurice [13th century, from period of porch addition]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jamb figures #Saint Clement #Saint Lawrence #Saint Maurice #Saint Stephen #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #Left #martyrs #south side #unrestored

Window 047 - Choir, north side, 14th century grisailles, with Saint Lawrence

Saint Lawrence on the gridiron

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Lawrence #TCS-photo #Win047 #cathedral #gridiron #grisailles #martyrs #restored #stained glass

Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Saint Martin gives half of his cloak to a beggar; Cobbler preparing leather as donor; Christ thanks Martin in a dream and returns his cloak.
• Row 02: Cobbler scraping hide as donor; Martin is baptized; Cobbler stitches shoe as donor.
• Row 03: Martin revives a catachumen who died prior to baptism; Cobbler trimming sole of shoe as donor; Saint Hillaire makes Martin an exorcist.
• Row 04: Martin is attacked by two ruffians, one saves his life; The brigands waiting to attack; Martin escapes by making a pine tree fall on the brigands.
• Row 05: The people of Tours seek a new bishop (both sides); Martin ordained bishop (middle).
• Row 06: Martin forces robber's soul out of a shrine, where it was being mistakenly honored as a martyr; People watch; Martin raises a child from the dead (some say he interrupts a country funeral to make sure they are not practicing paganism).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Emperor Maximus #france #Jesus Christ #Paris #Saint Martin #TCS-photo #Tetradius #Win024 #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #exorcism #funeral #lepers #martyrs #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #martyrs #south side #unrestored