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 identity known under a second identity to become first after reading the indices. They represent aMonkand anholy. These windows are also Jacques GRUBER (financed by war reparations 1928.

        – To the right : ThereBureof the monk is not black : it cannot be a Benedictine. THEciboriumsplit is also to be linked with a secondary attribute doubling it. ThereSpider web, in both upper lobes, puts you on the right track when you add light homespun to it. This stained glass window is very often presented as a representation of Benedict of Nursia, which he is certainly not. The Argument major advanced is that of this chalice broken twice which would authenticate the saint except that another saint has a similar story and which corresponds to the same circumstance. It isNorbert of Xanten.History of the miracle of the spider, widely divulged by the canons of Rolduc.

          – To the left : The habit has been taken to call this stained glass window, the name of « Elizabeth of Hungary » whose cult has been established since the 13th century on the theme of the young widow who devotes herself to the poor and died very early, at the age of 24. But on reading the stained glass window in depth, we lean towards another sense. If we retain the theme of roses, a good number of saints can be retained. Roses are at his feet, no royal crown but a ducal crown, a two-row cord which is the norm of the Poor Clares. The nimbus is not complete but half therefore blessed in the sanctification process. The ring on the right little finger marks the state of nobility as power. Ultimately In the end, the blessed Margaret of Lorraine Vaudemont, Duchess of Alençon imposes itself for local devotion in a good reading of stained glass.

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The presentations of the stained glass windows have as reference the interpretation of:

Émile BADEL 1861/1936

Member of the Vosges Philomathic Society, professor of literature and history at the Eastern Professional School and in 1910, editorial secretary at the “Est Républicain” newspaper. Émile Badel has written numerous works (monographs and articles) on Lorraine and its history. He also founded with a priest called Carrier the Historical Museum of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port.

Pierre Sesmat 1949/2024

Member of the French archeology society, member of the UMR 7002 research team, (research unit on the church) and study of “hall shaped” churches (12/17th centuries)

Jacques Choux ,known as “vicar Choux” 1919/2002

A Lorraine scholar, French historian and former curator at the Lorraine Museum in Nancy.