6- Norbert of Xanten, Marguerite de Lorraine Vaudemont

        – In this chapel, we also discover two characters, whose identification is more subtle because Gruber plays by merging the known identity under a second identity to become first after a reading of the clues. They represent a Monk and a saint. These stained-glass windows are also by Jacques GRUBER (financed by war damages 1928.

 

 

Right : The monk’s robe is not black : he cannot be a Benedictine. THE split ciborium is also to linked to a secondary attribute doubling it. The spider web, in the two upper lobes, pts us on the right track when we add the light monk’s robe. This stained-glass window is very often presented as a representation of Benedict of Nursia. The main argument put forward is that of this twice-broken chalice which would authenticate the saint.

 

Left : It has become customary to call this stained-glass window after « Elizabeth of Hungary » whose cult has been established since the 13th century, based on the theme of the young window who devotes herself to the poor and dies very young, at 24. But upon closer examination of the stained-glass window, on leans towards another meaning. If one retains the theme of roses, a good number of saint can be identified. The roses are at her feet, no royal crow but a ducal crow, a two-row cord which is the norm for Poor Clares. The halo is not complete but half, therefore blessed in the process of sanctification. The ring on the right little finger marks the state of nobility as well as power. Ultimately, Blessed Marguerite de Lorraine Vaudemont, Duchess of Alençon, stands out for local devotion in a good reading of stained-glass window.

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