2017-07-18 - Chartres Cathedral
After the chateaux, we stopped by Chartres chathedral, known for its stained glass. I have put comments on several of the stained glass pictures to (hopefully) assist in understanding them.
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The Good Samaritan and Adam and Eve window
(Read from bottom to top, left to right) Donated by the shoe makers shown working in panels 1 & 2, and donating the window in panel 3. Panels 4 - 12 depict the parable of the good samaritan. Panels 13 - 23 depict Adam and Eve from creation through the fall and Cain killing Abel. Panel 24 shows Jesus judging the quick and the dead.
