Bay 15 - Life of St Cheron
Index to panels:
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01
- Donor Panel (Masons dressing stones)
02 - Donor Panel (Masons
carving statues of kings)
03
- The young Cheron is taken to school by his parents
04 - The young Cheron at school,
learning from a master
05 - Cheron rejects the marriage
his parents had arranged for him
06 - Cheron's rejected fiancee marries
another man ??
07
- Cheron exorcises a demon from a possessed woman
08 - Cheron cures
a blind man
09
- Cheron addressing a crowd ????
10 - Cheron intervenes to right
a cart which has been upset by a demon
11
- En route to St Denis, Cheron is attacked by robbers
12 - Decapitated by the bandits,
Cheron picks up his head and continues
13 - Cheron places his head beside
a well and his soul is carried away
14
- Cheron appears to the priest Aper and shows him his tomb
15 - A group of handicapped men coming
to visit the saint's relics
16 - Translation of
the relics of St Cheron
17
- King Clothaire's son taking leave of his father
18 - King Clothaire's son praying
at the tomb of Cheron, who blesses him
19
- A group of noblemen out hawking
20 - The hawking party resting ??
22
- Bishop Pappolus offering a new chalice to the Abbey of St Cheron
21 - The Abbot of St Cheron returns
with the new chalice
St Cheron is one of the more obscure members of the Chartrain litany of saints and one of that large family of French cephalophore saints. It is therefore particularly ironic that this window has some of the most badly-matched heads which various generations of restorers have dropped in as stop-gaps.
