Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of FranceEdwards, George Wharton
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Vanished Halls and Cathedrals of France
Edwards, George Wharton
Cathedrals -- France; Cities and towns -- France; France -- Description and travel
arrangement is very attractive in expression."
The great blazing rose windows of the transept were named "Fire" and
"Water," but which was which we never quite discovered, because of a
difference of opinion held by those whom we questioned, but this did
not in the least affect our opinion of their great artistic value, or
interfere with our admiration.
In the south transept we readily found the gravestone in memory of the
Spanish Captain Hernando Tiello, who captured Amiens in 1597, and just
opposite, the great stone sarcophagus of the Canon Claude Pierre, who
must have been a canon of great importance, to have been so favored and
placed. In the Chapel of Notre Dame de Puy were a great number of marble
tablets emblazoned with the names of the Fraternity of Puy, and bore
reliefs in marble, showing scenes in the life of the Virgin Mary. Here
there was much intricate Flamboyant tracery framing some scenes in the
life of St. James the Great, of the sixteenth century style, presented
by Canon Guillaume Aucouteaux.
The north transept contained the fine monument of the Canon Jehan Wyts,
who died in 1523. This showed the temple at Jerusalem, in four
scenes depicting the "Sanctum," the "Atrium," the "Tabernaculum," and
"Sanctum-Sanctorum." In this transept was buried the remains of the
comic poet "Gresset," who flourished in the eighteenth century, and a
great shrine for the head of John the Baptist, said to be incased here,
and to have been brought from the Holy Land and presented with imposing
ceremonies, by the Crusader Wallon de Sarton, who was likewise Canon of
Picquigny. Singularly enough there were several other heads incased in
magnificent jeweled reliquaries which were to be seen in other churches,
notably in the south of France, and in Genoa, each one claiming, with
much documentary proof, to be the sole and only authentic head of the
Great Preacher of Repentance.
In one of the chapels in the left aisle of the nave, that of St. Saulve,
was a remarkable crucifix, which enjoyed great repute, for it was
gravely alleged to have bowed its head upon the occasion of the
installment of the sacred relics of St. Honoré.
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