IMG 5114

IMG 5114

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.

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

IMG 5142

IMG 5142

Window 013 - Story of Saint Anthony of the Desert and Saint Paul the Anchorite (restored)

Top to bottom, left to right, including medallions.

• Row 05: 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).
• 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

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Athanasius #Chartres #france #Saint Anthony of the Desert #Saint Paul the Anchorite #TCS-photo #Win013 #cathedral #charity #devils and demons #hermit #miracles #nuns #restored #stained glass

IMG 5144

IMG 5144

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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Athanasius #Chartres #france #Saint Anthony of the Desert #Saint Paul the Anchorite #TCS-photo #Win013 #cathedral #charity #devils and demons #hermit #miracles #nuns #restored #stained glass

P1020584

P1020584

original (4295078081)

Window 038 - Charlemagne (restored)

Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 01: Furriers as donors.

[Conquest of Jerusalem]

• Row 02: Roman Emperor Constantine sends messenger to Charlemagne; the Emperor has had a dream of Charlemagne conquering Jerusalem.
• Diamond 03: Charlemagne, victorious, is greeted by Constantine.
• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Constantine #Constantine's Conquest of Jerusalem #france #Pamplona #Pampulauna #Spanish Crusade #TCS-photo #Win038 #astronomy #cathedral #interior #martyrs #miracles #relics #restored #stained glass

IMG 5091

IMG 5091

Window 038 - Charlemagne

Bottom to top, left to right:

[Spanish Crusades - from Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin]

• 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).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Durendal #france #King Marsile #Roland #Saint Giles #Spanish Crusade #TCS-photo #Win038 #cathedral #censers #confession #Detail #horn #martyrs #oliphant #restored #sin #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 041

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 041

• Row 1: Cobblers, donors of the window
• Medallion 2: Apostles around Mary's deathbed
• Medallion 3 (small): Jesus receives soul (small child).
• Medallion 4: Mary's funeral (note the coffin held up at the top).
• Medallion 5 (small): Angels with censers

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Assumption of Mary #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Mary #Queen of Heaven #TCS-photo #Win007 #angels #apostles #burial of Mary #cathedral #censers #date estimate #death of Mary #donors identified #stained glass