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St. Stephen’s Window South-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedra

St. Stephen's Window South-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedra

Window 041 - Saint Stephen
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).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Constantinople #france #Gamaliel #Jews #Juliana #Saint Paul #Saint Stephen #Sanhedrin #TCS-photo #Win041 #cathedral #devils and demons #martyr #restored #souls #stained glass

St. Stephen’s WindowSouth-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedral

St. Stephen's WindowSouth-east apsidal chapel Chartres Cathedral

Window 041 - Saint Stephen
Bottom to top, left to right:

• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned (partially visible).
• 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.
• Row 08: Juliana mistakes Stephen's body for that of her husband, and takes it home.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Constantinople #france #Gamaliel #Jews #Juliana #Saint Paul #Saint Stephen #Sanhedrin #TCS-photo #Win041 #cathedral #devils and demons #martyr #restored #souls #stained glass

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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.
• Row 06: James sends his cloak to free Filetus from the spell; the demon thus driven out weeps as he responds to the saint's power.
• Row 07: Hermogenes summons two demons to capture James
• Row 08: James overpower Hermogenes' control, and commands the demons to bring Hermogenes to James (2 panels).
• Row 09: Hermogenes is brought to James and Filetus.
• Row 10: James teaches Hermogenes; the magician is converted and decides to burn his magic texts.
• Row 11: James tells him to cast the texts into the sea; Hermogenes and Filetus plead for James' forgiveness.
• Row 12: Hermogenes destroys an idol.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Filetus #france #Hermogenes #Herod #Jesus Christ #Josias #Saint James Major #TCS-photo #Win037 #cathedral #devils and demons #donors identified #high priest #interior #magicians #martyrdom #miracles #restored #stained glass