Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers by Théodore Licquet
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it again. These different painted glasses were brought from Saint-Maur.
In the chapel of Saint-Joseph, is a painted window representing _Saint-Stephen before his judges_. In the chapel of the Virgin, which is opposite, we see _Saint-Stephen stoned_; these two painted windows belonged to the church of Saint-Etienne-des-Tonneliers. Some glasses of the higher windows, brought from Saint-Martin-sur-Renelle, represent _the passion of our Lord_. In the choir, in the chapel to the left, _Tobit burying the dead_, above we see _the resurrection of Lazarus_; in the same window _Job on the dunghill_; and underneath, _the Lord's supper_. In another chapel of the choir, opposite to the former, is _Jesus-Christ in the temple, overthrowing the tables of the money-changers_; beside it, is _the rich man at table_; Lazarus is at the outside of the door. The stained glass of these two chapels belonged to Saint-Maur. Most of them, from the richness of their coloring, and the perfection of their execution, are very remarkable. Under the dome at the lop of the nave, are five different fresco, paintings which represent different acts relative to the life of the patron of the church. One represents _the consecration of Saint-Romain as bishop_; in another, _he overthrows the pagan temples_; farther on, is _the miracle of the dragon or Gargouille_; next to it, is the procession of the shrine to obtain the deliverance of a prisoner, a ceremony which was instituted after the miracle of which we have already spoken. The _apotheosis of Saint-Romain_ crowns these four paintings. |
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