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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 019

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 019

Window 001 - Jesse Tree, detail

Jesus Christ surrounded by seven doves (gifts of the Spirit).

Prophets who testified of Christ's coming border the window.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #12th century #7 gifts of the spirit #Chartres #france #Jesse Tree #Jesus Christ #TCS-photo #Win001 #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #doves #prophets #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 078

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 078

Window 024 - Saint Martin of Tours

Bottom to top, left to right:

• 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).
• Row 07: Martin exorcises a demon from a man's buttocks; Martin preaches to a crowd (2 frames).
• Row 08: Physician and paralytic in city of Treves; Martin heals the paralytic while family/others look on (2 frames).
• Row 09: Martin and Roman proconsul Tetradius (center); Martin heals servant of proconsul (both sides).
• Row 10: Outside Paris Martin kisses a leper and cures him; Angel with censer; Martin with Emperor Maximus at banquet.
• Row 11: Angel with censer; Martin's death; Angel with censer.
• Row 12: Parishioners of of Tours and Poitiers fight over the saint's remains; Angel with censer; Tours steals body from Poitiers and takes it up the Loire river.
• Row 13: Saint's body arrives at Tours; Soul of Martin ascends (perhaps can rest easy now in the 'proper' place?); Funeral procession awaiting the body.
• Row 14: Christ in glory.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #Emperor Maximus #france #Jesus Christ #Paris #Saint Martin #TCS-photo #Tetradius #Win024 #cathedral #date estimate #donors identified #exorcism #funeral #lepers #martyrs #miracles #stained glass #unrestored

Chartres West Exterior Slides 019

Chartres West Exterior Slides 019

Chartres west side, central portal, tympanum

• In the lintel two of the twelve apostles to their right stands Enoch.
• First archevolt: Angels.
• Second archevolt: Two of the 24 Elders of the Apocalypse (Revelations 4:4).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #Chartres #Enoch #france #TCS-photo #angels #apostles #Archivolt #cathedral #Center #date estimate #Detail #exterior #west side

IMG 5152

IMG 5152

Window 056 - Peace Window (20th century)

Donated in 1971 by German Association of Friends of Chartres Cathedral. Theme of peace and reconcilliation.

• Left - Seven flames (7 gifts of the spirit)
• Right - Sun (light of the world)

• Top Center - Hand of God (divine power)

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #10 commandments #20th century #7 gifts of the spirit #Chartres #Eucharist #france #TCS-photo #Win056 #altar #cathedral #covenant #modern-glass #rainbow #restored #stained glass

Chartres South Exterior Slides 052

Chartres South Exterior Slides 052

Chartres, south side, left

ARCHIVOLTS - RIGHT SIDE

Bottom row of the archivolt is the aftermath of Saint Stephen's martyrdom, where Sault (later Saint Paul) holds the cloaks of his murderers. The stoning occurs at the right side of the lintel, in the far left of this image.

• First (inner) archivolt - eight children, the Holy Innocents killed by Herod the Great at Bethlehem.
• Second - Six seated figures catch two streams of blood from a ram's head at the apex of the arch. (Refers to Revelation XXX).
• Third - Eight martyrs hold palms
• Fourth - Ten kings and bishops
• Fifth - Hierarchy of martyrs in twelve statues: levite, deacon, priest, abbot, bishop, with an emperor and pope paired at the top (to show their equality).

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Saint Stephen #TCS-photo #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #exterior #lintel #martyrs #Right #south side #unrestored