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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 105

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 105

Window 038 - Charlemagne (unrestored)

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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Charlemagne #Chartres #Constantine #Constantine's Conquest of Jerusalem #Ferracutus #Ferragus #france #King Marsile #Pamplona #Pampulauna #Roland #Saint James Major #Spanish Crusade #TCS-photo #Win038 #astronomy #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #miracles #relics #stained glass #unrestored

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 125

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 125

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

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 049

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 049

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

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Chartres, south side, center

JAMB Figures

Right side
• Paul (note the omnipresent baldness) with sword, instrument of his beheading.
• St. John (no beard, young, dressed as priest; has book in left hand and broken palm--symbol of chastity--in the right.) Stands on a man offering cup of serpents, cf miracle he performed.
• St. James the Greater (of Peter, James, and John). Has belt of shells--the "coquilles St. Jacques" [scallops] were his symbol and often worn by pilgrims.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #TCS-photo #cathedral #unrestored