Bay 14 - Life and miracles of St Nicholas (II)
Index to panels:
(Click
captions below to open detailed view in this window or click the relevant
panel on the diagrams to the left to open in a new window).
Panels 01-05 were destroyed in 1791 - the modern replacements are pretty awful. The rest of the glass is mostly original.
06
- The young Nicholas refuses his mother's milk
07 - Nicholas studying in school
08 - Nicholas gives a poor man the
money for his daughters' dowries
09
- Guided by God, Nicholas goes to the church early one morning
10 - A cleric asks Nicholas his name,
then bids him to enter the church
11 - Inside the church,
Nicholas is led towards the altar
12 - Nicholas kneels before the altar
and is told that he must be bishop
13 - Installation of Nicholas as
Bishop of Myra
14
- During a famine, Nicholas begs passing ships for some of their grain
15 - The sailors give Nicholas some
grain, but their cargo is undiminished
16
- A crook borrows money, promising on St Nicholas to return it
17 - The man swears on oath that
he has returned the money
19 - The crook, sleeping by the roadside,
is run over by a cart
18 - Converted by witnessing these
miracles, the Jew accepts baptism
20 - A Jew beats an image of St Nicholas for not protecting his money
21
- Three young clerics arrive at an inn and take a room
22 - The inn-keeper kills the clerics
and hides their bodies in a barrel
23 - Nicholas comes to the inn, finds
the murdered men and revives them
24
- A wealthy couple are bringing a golden cup to the Saint's shrine when
both it and their son are lost overboard
25 - At the saint's shrine, their
son and the cup are restored to them
One of three windows at Chartres dedicated to St Nicholas of Bari. This one elaborates the moment of his appointment as Bishop before depicting five of his miracles.
