• 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. • Row 07: Outraged at the temple's loss, pagans beat Apollinaris to death; saint's funeral; Christians of Ravenna mourn his passing.
Bottom to top, left to right. (The first 5 rows are modern as of 1872, marked '*').
• Row 02*: Peter arrives at a town; a saint is crucified; Jesus speaks to an apostle. • Row 03*: An apostle and two men; Two apostles pray while idols fall; Apostle sleeps on ground (see last panel of row 7). • Row 04*: Jesus speaks with apostle; Apostles speaks to a group; Saint praying is struck with clubs. • Row 05*: Two apostles speak; Apostle is lead to martyrdom; Apostle prays while menaced with a drawn sword.
SAINT ANDREW
Some panels have been replaced out of order, and some salvaged from the lower five rows; the story is easier to follow if the panels are swapped as indicated (** and ***).
• Row 06: Andrew prays before his cross (**); Andrew restores sight and gives a cloak (they meet in the first panel of row 13); Andrew gives communion (***). • Row 07: Slays serpent that vomits blood; Has proconsul's wife go to raise the child from the dead; Saint Peter and Saint John appear to Andrew and tell him of his coming martyrdom.
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.
Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.
• Row 1 (bottom corners): Fishmongers donated the window. • Row 2: St. Anthony hears the gospel preached; he donates his goods to the poor. • Row 3: He leaves his sister in the care of nuns. • Row 4: A hermit teaches Anthony; he digs, manual labor as part of the hermit's life. • Row 5: Devil (green face and feet) tempts Saint Anthony; Anthony before his fire is tempted by the devil in the form of a woman (also in green dress).
Window 004 - Saint John the Divine [author of Revelation / the Apocalypse] Bottom to top, left to right (this pre-restoration shot is virtually unreadable):
• Row 01 [single]: Flight to Egypt • Rows 02 & 03: Armorers donate the window • Row 04: Death of Stactacus • Row 05 & 06: John banished to Patmos; he writes Revelation. • Row 07: John summoned before Aristomedes • Rows 08 & 09: John enters Ephesus and raises a woman from the dead; on-lookers are amazed.
Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:
• Row 01: Furrier as donor; Draper as donor measures cloth. • Row 02: Christ gives James a pilgrim's staff (perhaps assign to mission in Galacia?) • Row 03: Demon inspires Hermogenes (Almogines), a magician, to send his disciple, Filetus, to confront James; James preaches (!). • Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him. • Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic. • Row 06: James sends his cloak to free Filetus from the spell; the demon thus driven out weeps as he responds to the saint's power. • Row 07: Hermogenes summons two demons to capture James • Row 08: James overpower Hermogenes' control, and commands the demons to bring Hermogenes to James (2 panels). • Row 09: Hermogenes is brought to James and Filetus. • Row 10: James teaches Hermogenes; the magician is converted and decides to burn his magic texts. • Row 11: James tells him to cast the texts into the sea; Hermogenes and Filetus plead for James' forgiveness. • Row 12: Hermogenes destroys an idol.
• Row 04: Charlemagne defeats Saracens; Charlemange refuses all reward save relics he has found. • Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain. • Diamond 07: Army leaves on the Spanish Crusade, Archbishop Turpin of Rheims attends with Charlemagne. • Row 08: Charlemagne prays prior to assaulting Pampulauna (Pamplona); Charlemagne takes the city from Moors. • Circle 09: Charlemagne builds a church to Saint James, who instigated the crusade. • Row 10: Crusaders battle Moors; Miracle of the Flowering Lances: the night prior to battle, those fated to die had flowers appear on their lances, proof of their blessed state as future martyrs. • Diamond 11: Roland battles King Marsile of the Saracens [some sources say batles giant Ferragus/Ferracutus, but the armor does not match]. • Row 12: Rolland kills giant Ferragus/Ferracutus; Ganelon urges Charlemagne to return home to France. • Circle 13: Rolland tries to break his sword Durendal, then strives to blow the oliphant (horn) to summon Charlemagne (Rolland is represented twice in the scene). • Row 14: Baudouin cannot find water for the dying Rolland; Baudouin tells Charlemagne of Rolland's death.
[Mass of St Giles--most of the story is found in Window 022.]
• Diamond 15: Saint Giles celebrates mass, and angel delivers a scroll with Charlemagne's unconfessed sins upon it. • Row/Corners 16: Angels with censers.
• Circle 05: Charlemagne gives relics to the Church.
[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]
• Row 06: Charlemagne asks learned about Milky Way; Saint James the Major appears to Charlemagne in a dream, tells him to follow the Milky Way to Spain. • Diamond 07: Army leaves on the Spanish Crusade, Archbishop Turpin of Rheims attends with Charlemagne. • Row 08: Charlemagne prays prior to assaulting Pampulauna (Pamplona); Charlemagne takes the city from Moors. • Circle 09: Charlemagne builds a church to Saint James, who instigated the crusade.
• 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).
