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Chartres, north side, center portal

INNER ARCH

• Eighth archivolt: Creation and Fall [bottom to top]

Note cruciform nimbus, identifying creator as Christ.

(15) Adam and Eve make fig leaf aprons
(16) God appears to judge Adam and Eve's sin (also carrying book as previous when he gave them law in the garden)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Adam #Chartres #Eve #france #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #creation #fall #north side #restored #square

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 098

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 098

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 #date estimate #donors identified #idols #magicians #martyrs #mercy #miracles #modern-glass #soothsayers #stained glass #unrestored

Chartres North Exterior Slides 121

Chartres North Exterior Slides 121

Chartres, north side, right portal.

• Statues: The right pillar has two statues, one of Saint Potentian, archbishop of Sens and missionary to the Gauls, and Saint Modesta, daughter of Roman governor Quirinus, an early martyr of Chartres. They stand on scenes from their respective martyrdoms.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Modesta #Saint Potentian #TCS-photo #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #martyrs #north side #Right

St. Julien the Hospitalier Window Chartres North Choir

St. Julien the Hospitalier Window Chartres North Choir

Window 045 - St Julien the Hospitaller (restored)

• Row 01: Carpenters, Joiners, Cartwrights and Coopers as donors

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jesus Christ #Saint Julien the Hospitalier #TCS-photo #Win045 #cathedral #charity #donors identified #pennance #pilgrim #restored #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 114

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 114

Window 041 - Saint Stephen (restored)
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).
• Row 04: Two false witnesses accuse Stephen before the Sanhedrin; He refutes the charge of blasphemy.
• Row 05: Stephen taken outside the city to be stoned.
• 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.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

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