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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 076
Windows 017 - Zodiac and Labours of the Months (unrestored)
Top to bottom, left to right:
• Row 06: April (budding plants and vines); Taurus.
• Row 07: July (cutting hay); Cancer.
• Row 08: June (cutting wheat) & Leo combined.
• Row 09: August (thresh wheat); Virgo.
• Row 10: September (harvest and tramp grapes); Libra.
• Row 11: October (place wine in barrels) & Scorpio.
• Row 12: November (slaughter hog); Saggitarius
• Row 13: December (feasting) Capricorn
• Row 14: Christ with Alpha and Omega (all encompassing, even of the tasks of the year and the cosmos represented by the zodiac's progression).
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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 102
Window 037 - Saint James Major
Bottom to top, left to right (some rows have the story proceed RIGHT to left; marked '!' where this occurs:
• Row 01: Furrier as donor; Draper as donor measures cloth.
• Row 02: Christ gives James a pilgrim's staff (perhaps assign to mission in Galacia?)
• Row 03: Demon inspires Hermogenes (Almogines), a magician, to send his disciple, Filetus, to confront James; James preaches (!).
• Row 04: James and Filetus meet, and the saint converts him.
• Row 05: Filetus reports his conversion to Hermogenes; Hermogenes binds his apprentence with magic.
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Chartres, south side, right--"Bay of the Confessors"
TYMPANUM and LINTEL [detail]
Right side:
• St. Nicholas (center right) drops money down into the home of a poor family whose father is too ill to provide proper dowries for his three daughters. They had been destined to prostitution.
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Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours
Bottom to top, left to right:
• Row 01: Saint Martin gives half of his cloak to a beggar; Cobbler preparing leather as donor; Christ thanks Martin in a dream and returns his cloak.
• 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 attacked by two ruffians, one saves his life; The brigands waiting to attack; Martin escapes by making a pine tree fall on the brigands.
• Row 05: The people of Tours seek a new bishop (both sides); Martin ordained bishop (middle).
• Row 06: Martin forces robber's soul out of a shrine, where it was being mistakenly honored as a martyr; People watch; Martin raises a child from the dead (some say he interrupts a country funeral to make sure they are not practicing paganism).
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Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt.
• First archivolt (inner): April with tree blossoming, Aries
• Second archivolt (outer): July with wheat cutting, Cancer, August with wheat threshing, Leo.
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Chartres, west side, left portal, archivolt (bottom to top description)
• First archivolt: January with two faces,
• Second archivolt: October with knocking down acorns
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Chartres South Exterior Slides 021
South porth, right portal, right side --"Bay of the Confessors"
Figures L - R
• St. Gregory (pope dress)
• St. Jerome (translated Bible into Latin, the "Vulgate"). Beneath him is a woman with bandaged eyes (the 'blind' synagogue replaced by the Church)
• St. Martin (bishop of Tours). Two dogs lick his bishop's staff, since he reportedly prevented them from eating a hare by miraculous means. Martin gets further attention in the tympanum above the door.
• St. Avitus, abbot of Micy [added at porch construction].
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