LDS Scripture Commentary / Photos: Chartres Cathedral
Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
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Window 001 - Jesse Tree
Bottom to top: Jesse, David, King (Solomon?), King, King, Mary, Jesus surrounded by seven doves (gifts of the Spirit). Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.
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Window 041 - Saint Stephen (restored)
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Shoemakers working as donor; Presenting the window from donors.
• Row 02: Stephen made a deacon by two apostles.
• Row 03: Stephen debates (L) with the Jewish doctors (R).
• Row 04: Two false witnesses accuse Stephen before the Sanhedrin; He refutes the charge of blasphemy.
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned.
• Row 06: A false witness leaves his coat with Saul, the future Saint Paul; Stephen is stoned to death.
• Row 07: Gamaliel, one of the Sanhedrin, advised that the early Christian movement not be attacked by the Jews, reasoning that if it was of men it would come to naught, and if of God they did not want to fight it. Heis sympathetic and buries Stephen in his own sepulchre; Juliana, a widow, searches for her husband's body.
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Window 056 - Peace Window (20th century)
Donated in 1971 by German Association of Friends of Chartres Cathedral. Theme of peace and reconcilliation.
Four crosses make up the window.
• Lowest Center bears the Ten Commandments, source of salvation.
• Left - Burning bush (revelation through natural phenomenon)
• Right - Menorrah
• 2nd Center - Altar and rainbow (the covenant)
• Left - Wheat (source of eucharistic bread)
• Right - Grapes (source of eucharistic wine)
• 3rd Center - Charlice (the eucharist)
• Left - Seven flames (7 gifts of the spirit)
• Right - Sun (light of the world)
• Top Center - Hand of God (divine power)
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Window 064 - Noah (restored)
Top to bottom, left to right
• Row 07: Animals (including camel and bird) begin to gather two by two; Ark in the water; Drowning of all other animals and people.
• Row 08: Drowning of all other animals and people (two panels).
• Row 09: Drowning of all other animals and people; Noah releases dove from window of the ark; Dove flies away and returns with olive leaf.
• Row 10: Corpses of men and animals remain when water dries up (two panels).
• Row 11: Raven eats the drowned corpses; Animals leaving ark (two panels).
• Row 12: Noah and family leave ark; Animals leave ark.
• Row 13: Noah makes wine (from vines above); Noah curses Ham; Noah gets drunk.
• Row 14: Planting of first vines (made into wine in previous row); Shem and Japheth (with wives) kneel to pray.
• Row 15: Angel, Rainbow, Angel.
• Row 16: Angel, Angel.
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Chartres, North side, right portal
INNER ARCH
• Third archivolt: life of Esther
Left:
† Esther kneels before the king (note parallels with Judith, opposite);
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OUTER ARCH
• First archivolt: April holds corn, May falcoln on fist, June mower goes to fields with scythe and whetstone, July taking flax to be steeped in water
• Second archivolt: Pieces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini
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Chartres, north side, center portal
JAMB FIGURES
Left:
• Elisha (Far left) - Shumanite woman beneath.
• Melchizedek - wearing crown, with bread and wine (which he gave Abraham; prefigures the Eucharist). Lamb beneath.
• Abraham - looks up at angel halting the sacrifice of Isaac. Ram beneath.
• Moses - with brazen serpent on the pole, symbol of Christ's crucifixion. Golden calf beneath.
• Samuel - sacrifices a lamb.
• King David - carries instruments of the Passion, which his Psalm 22 foretold. Beneath lion of Judah.
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Window 042 - Saint Cheron (restored)
• Row 05: Speaks to listeners; heals victim of a chariot accident (caused by the demon [gremlin?] near the wheel).
• Row 06: He is beset by robbers near Chartres; he is beheaded, but picks up his head and walks.
• Row 07: He reaches the site of his burial, across the Eure river; He later appears to an abbot (Aper) to designate his tomb's location.
• Row 08: Those healed by the saint; Body moved to a new tomb, Bishop Pappolus overseeing it.
Healing King Clothaire's Son
• Row 09: King Clothaire's son is ill; the saint appears to son and a priest while they are on pilgrimage to Tours.
• Row 10: Hawking party; the son healed on his return?
Bishop and the Abby of St. Cheron
• Row 11: Bishop Pappolus offers a new chalice to the monastery; The abbot of St. Cheron's abby returns with it.
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