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ChartresGlass Box M Slides 134

ChartresGlass Box M Slides 134

Window 060 - Saint Nicholas (third window about him) (restored)
Order is not regular; numbered by panel (see diagram).

• 10-11: When a student in Myra, he drops money into a house to spare three girls without doweries from entering prostitution. He flees rather than be thanked.
• 12: Chosen as new bishop.
• 13: Consecrated as bishop of Myra.

(Side half moons):
• 14-15: Nicholas convinces sailors to provide a famine-stricken down with corn.

(Side half moons):

• 16-17: Nicholas addressing the three princes, Nepotian, Ursus and Apilion; The three princes saved by Nicholas carrying gifts from the Emperor. [Houvet saw this as distributing the corn of previous.]

(Side half moons):
• 18-19: Three men welcomed and killed by inn-keeper.

• 20: Nicholas saves a baby from boiling, a miracle.
• 21-22: Couple's only child falls overboard on trip to Nicholas' shrine; They find the child safe when they arrive at the shrine.
• 23-25: A shyster swears by St. Nicholas he will return gold to a Jewish money-lender; He gives staff to the Jew and claims he has repaid his loan; Shyster and staff crushed by a cart, getting his just deserts.
• 26: Jewish merchant strikes St. Nicholas' statue because the saint did not protect his valuables.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Chartres #france #Jews #Myra #Saint Nicholas #TCS-photo #Win060 #cathedral #charity #date estimate #donors identified #miracles #restored #shrine #stained glass

ChartresGlass Box P Slides 026

ChartresGlass Box P Slides 026

† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John (unrestored, detail)

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 Beasts of the Apocalypse #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Dreux #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #TCS-photo #Win095 #cathedral #date estimate #Detail #donors identified #rose window #south side #stained glass #unrestored

IMG 5013

IMG 5013

† Window 095 - South rose: Christ in glory, after Revelation of St. John

Surrounded by the four beasts and 24 elders of the apocalypse. Angels and elders hold musical instruments, censers, and vials of perfume. Note the coat of arms (blue and yellow checkerboard) of the donors, Pierre Mauclerc of Dreux-Brittany.

• Saint Matthew - angel with book
• Saint John - eagle
• Saint Luke - winged bull
• Saint Mark - winged lion

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #24 Elders of the Apocalypse #4 Beasts of the Apocalypse #4 evangelists #Chartres #Christ in Glory #Dreux #france #Jesus Christ #Revelation #Saint John #Saint Luke #Saint Mark #Saint Matthew #TCS-photo #Win095 #cathedral #Detail #donors identified #restored #rose window #south side #stained glass

Chartres North Exterior Slides 113

Chartres North Exterior Slides 113

Chartres, North side, right portal
INNER ARCH
• First archivolt: twelve angels bearing sun, moon, and stars.

• Second archivolt: life of Sampson on the left,
† Samson slays lion;
† Samson finds honey in lion's mouth;
† Samson carries off the gates of Gaza (partial).

• Third archivolt: life of Esther and Judith (prefiguring Mary) on left and right respectively
Left:

† Ahasuerus speaks with Haman and Mordecai;
† Mordecai speaks to Esther's eunuch, presents scroll of degree against the Jews;
† Esther kneels before the king (note parallels with Judith, opposite) -- partially visible in this photo;

• Fourth archivolt: Tobias, son of Tobit, who restored vision to his father as Christ would to Israel.
Left:

† Tobit buries the Jew;
† Tobit becomes blind;
† Tobit speaks with his wife;

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Ahasuerus #Asmodeus #Chartres #Esther #france #Gideon #Holofernes #Judith #Mordecai #Raguel #Samson #TCS-photo #Tobias #Tobit #Archivolt #cathedral #date estimate #exterior #north side #Right

St. Cheron Window South-East Apsidal Chapel Chartres Cathedral

St. Cheron Window South-East Apsidal Chapel Chartres Cathedral

Window 042 - Saint Cheron (restored)

• Row 03: Saint Cheron turns away from the young woman his parents have arranged for him to marry; She marries someone else.
• Row 04: Cheron enters the clergy, he exorcises a demon; he heals a blind man.
• Row 05: Speaks to listeners; heals victim of a chariot accident (caused by the demon [gremlin?] near the wheel).
• Row 06: He is beset by robbers near Chartres; he is beheaded, but picks up his head and walks.
• Row 07: He reaches the site of his burial, across the Eure river; He later appears to an abbot (Aper) to designate his tomb's location.
• Row 08: Those healed by the saint; Body moved to a new tomb, Bishop Pappolus overseeing it.

Album: Chartres-Cathedral

Categories: Chartres-Cathedral

Tags: #Bishop Pappolus #Chartres #france #King Clothaire #Saint Cheron #TCS-photo #Win042 #cathedral #healings #martyr #relics #restored #stained glass