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Chalons-en-Champagne
Window 211 - The north rose window
C13
The Celestial Jerusalem
The north rose at Chalons-en-Champagne cathedral is the subject
of a paper published in Cahiers Archaeologique, 49 2001, p117-142 by Lillich, M.P. "La 'Rose Verte' de la Cathedrale de Chalons en Champagne." In this the author discussed the subject matter that had been much debated over the years without
much satisfactory agreement. She concluded that the window probably echoed the south rose at Reims (glass lost
in the C16) that represented the Celestial New Jerusalem that follows the Last Judgment, with the green leaves
of the Tree of Life decorating the main panels outside the Childhood of Christ and Christ as Majestas Domini at
the centre.
"The leaves of The Tree are for the Healing of the Nations"
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