Angers Cathedral Stained Glass - Bay 102a Key (The Life of St Maurille of Angers)

Maurile was Bishop of Angers in the late 4th - early 5th centuries. According to his vita, he was born into an illustrous Milanese family and converted by St Martin, who was passing through the area on his way back from Hungary and had stopped in Milan to build a monastery. After Martin was driven away by the local mob, Maurille was tutored by St Ambrose until the death of his father, after which he left home to re-join St Martin at Tours. Martin ordained him and sent him to Angers, where he fought against heresy, built churches and worked various miracles (in the usual manner of local bishop-saints) before dying at the age of 90 in 426.


Bay 102a - The Life of St Maurille of Angers (c.1240)
(All images © Dr Stuart Whatling)
Index to the panels: 01, 02, 04 & 15-16 - Modern panels (not photographed) 03 - Maurille is installed as bishop by St Martin 05-06 - Maurille calls down heavenly fire to destroy a pagan temple 07 - Maurille heals a man with crippled hands 08 - Maurille burning the idols in the Temple of Prisciacus 09 - A shepherd is bitten by a deadly serpent 10 - Maurille kills the serpent and heals the shepherd 11 - Maurille destroys an idol 12 - Maurille frees a girl destined for the Spanish slave markets 13-14 - Death of St Maurille
Overview:
Maurile was Bishop of Angers in the late 4th - early 5th centuries. According to his vita, he was born into an illustrous Milanese family and converted by St Martin, who was passing through the area on his way back from Hungary and had stopped in Milan to build a monastery. After Martin was driven away by the local mob, Maurille was tutored by St Ambrose until the death of his father, after which he left home to re-join St Martin at Tours. Martin ordained him and sent him to Angers, where he fought against heresy, built churches and worked various miracles (in the usual manner of local bishop-saints) before dying at the age of 90 in 426.