LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Window 112 - clerestory, south side: Saint Vincent
Donor, a deacon named Petrus Ballart.
Saint Vincent's body is protected by a raven, and his body cast into the sea with a millstone.
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Window 038 - Charlemagne (unrestored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Furriers as donors.
[Conquest of Jerusalem]
• 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.
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Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right.
• Corners 1: Butchers, donors of the window [13th century]
• Quatrefoil 2: Mary (12 o'clock), with stonecutting and hauling for cathedral (3 and 9 o'clock), Chartres cathedral south tower (center), wine for workers (6 o'clock) [13th century]
• Quatrefoils 3: Stone cutters, masons, etc. as part of cathedral building [Modern, 1926]
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Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.
• Row 01 (bottom corners): Fishmongers donated the window.
• Row 02: St. Anthony hears the gospel preached; he donates his goods to the poor.
• Row 03: He leaves his sister in the care of nuns.
• Row 04: A hermit teaches Anthony; he digs, manual labor as part of the hermit's life.
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Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude (restored, detail)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 10: Chariots of the pagan moon and sun (which the apostles would not worship)
• Row 11: Two angels (modern) replaced an older scene showing the saints' martyrdom.
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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 1-5: Apothicaries and haberdashers as donors. (3): Selling belt; (4): apothecary; (5) merchant with balance.
• 6-7: Saint Nicholas is birthed and bathed.
• 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.
• 9: Nicholas in school.
• 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked.
• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.
(Side half moons):
• 14-15: Nicholas convinces sailors to provide a famine-stricken down with corn.
(Side half moons):
• 16-17: Nicholas addressing the three princes, Nepotian, Ursus and Apilion; The three princes saved by Nicholas carrying gifts from the Emperor. [Houvet saw this as distributing the corn of previous.]
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.
• 20: Nicholas saves a baby from boiling, a miracle.
• 21-22: Couple's only child falls overboard on trip to Nicholas' shrine; They find the child safe when they arrive at the shrine.
• 23-25: A shyster swears by St. Nicholas he will return gold to a Jewish money-lender; He gives staff to the Jew and claims he has repaid his loan; Shyster and staff crushed by a cart, getting his just deserts.
• 26: Jewish merchant strikes St. Nicholas' statue because the saint did not protect his valuables.
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Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).
• 8: Nicholas refuses to suckle his mother except Mondays and Fridays.
• 9: Nicholas in school.
• 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked.
(Side half-moons):
• 14-15: Nicholas convinces sailors to provide a famine-stricken down with corn.
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Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 11: Angel with censer; Martin's death; Angel with censer.
• Row 12: Parishioners of of Tours and Poitiers fight over the saint's remains; Angel with censer; Tours steals body from Poitiers and takes it up the Loire river.
• Row 13: Saint's body arrives at Tours; Soul of Martin ascends (perhaps can rest easy now in the 'proper' place?); Funeral procession awaiting the body.
• Row 14: Christ in glory.
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Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 06: Baradach arrests the apostles, likely at the instigation of Persian soothsayers (both panels).
• Row 07: Peace envoys from India arrive (both panels).
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Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours
Bottom to top, left to right:
• 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 attack by two ruffians, one saves his life; The brigands waiting to attack; Martin escapes by making a pine tree fall on the brigands.
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