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Window 058 - Prodigal Son

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 06: Attaches himself to somone; sent to herd swine; decides to arise and go to his Father.
• Row 07: Travels home; Father runs out to greet him; servant brings the best robe.
• Row 08: Killing the fatted calf; Feast prepared; Father comes out to speak with the eldest son.
• Row 09: The feast, with father, eldest, and youngest son together. (An optimistic ending which is left unstated in the gospel.)
• Row 10: Christ with angels.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Prodigal Son #TCS-photo #Win058 #cathedral #date estimate #parable #stained glass #unrestored

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Cartwrights and Coopers as donors
• Row 02: Joiners
• Row 03: Julien enters service with nobility.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #new imports #restored #stained glass

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.

(Lower 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.]

(Upper side half moons)
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.

(Upper cloverleaf)
• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jews #Myra #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #Win060 #cathedral #charity #donors identified #miracles #restored #shrine #stained glass

original (4295078089)

Window 035 - Saint Simon and Saint Jude

Bottom to top, left to right:

• 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).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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

Window 008 - Vendome Chapel (15th century)

15th century flamboyant gothic.

• Lower rows: Donor (Louis de Bourbon, Count of Vendôme) and wife on far right. Other members of royal family.
• Upper rows: Coronation of the Virgin, flanked by John the Baptist on the left, Saint John the Divine on the right.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #15th century #Chartres #Coronation of the Virgin #Crucifixion #france #Jesus Christ #John the Baptist #Louis de Bourbon #Saint John the Divine #TCS-photo #Vendome #Win008 #cathedral #donors identified #last judgment #new imports #restored #stained glass

Window 059 - Symbolic Window, Typology of the Passion of Christ (restored, detail)

NB: Read TOP to BOTTOM, unlike most windows. Some are modern (marked *).

• Row 08: Abraham takes Isaac to Mount Moriah for sacrifice; Descent from the Cross; Abraham is stopped from sacrificing Isaac.
• Row 07: Jonah near Ninevah (*).
• Row 06: Moses shows brass serpent; Adam collects blood at the foot of the cross (*); Israelites mark their doorposts with blood of the lamb (tau).
• Row 05: The Church (the NT, new faith); Crucifixion with Longinus and Stephaton (*); Synagogue (the OT, old faith).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abraham #Adam #Annointing of Christ's body #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Crucifixion #Elijah #Ephraim #Flagellation #france #Gideon #Isaac #Israelite scouts #Jacob #Jesus Christ #Jonah #King David #Longinus #Manasseh #Moses #Sacrifice of Isaac #Samson #Stephaton #TCS-photo #Win059 #angels #blood of the lamb #blood on doorposts #brass serpent #candelabra #cathedral #crown of thorns #descent from the cross #donors identified #pelican #promised land #restored #stained glass #the Church #the Synagogue #types of Christ #widow of Sareptha

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Abel #Adam #Cain #Chartres #Eve #Fall of Man #france #Garden of Eden #Good Samaritan #TCS-photo #Win006 #cathedral #cherubim #creation of Adam #creation of Eve #date estimate #fig leaf #parable #serpent #stained glass #tree of knowledge of good and evil #types of Christ #unrestored

Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Quatrefoil 3: Stone cutters, masons, etc. as part of cathedral building [Modern, 1926]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Fulbert #Saint Yves [Ivo] #Sancta Camisia #TCS-photo #Win009 #cathedral #cathedral building #donors identified #modern glass #relics #restored #stained glass #veil of the virgin

Window 009 - Miracles of the Virgin (unrestored)

Bottom to top, left to right.

• Quatrefoil 4: Procession of the Sancta Camisia (relic of Chartres, the "veil of the virgin," held to have been worn during the delivery of Christ) [Modern, 1926]
• Quatrefoil 5: Mary, surrounded by angels, prophets, and two bishops of Chartres: Saint Yves (Ivo of Chartres, c. 1040-23 Dec 1115) and Saint Fulbert (c. between 952 and 970 – 10 April 1028) [Modern, 1926]

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Mary #Saint Fulbert #Saint Yves [Ivo] #Sancta Camisia #TCS-photo #Win009 #cathedral #cathedral building #date estimate #donors identified #miracles #modern-glass #relics #stained glass #unrestored #veil of the virgin

Window 064 - Noah (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right

• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ark #Chartres #Flood-Deluge #france #Ham #Japheth #Noah #Shem #TCS-photo #Win064 #animals #cathedral #donors identified #rainbow #restored #stained glass