Barbara Window (Moncontour)

Barbara window in Moncontour

The Barbara Window in the Notre-Dame-St-Mathurin Catholic Church in Moncontour , a French commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in the Brittany region , was created in 1538. The leaded glass window was added to the list of architectural monuments in France in 1862 as Monument historique .

The window in the choir was created by an unknown workshop. It shows various scenes from the life of St. Barbara (see captions).

In addition to the Barbara window, five other windows from the Renaissance period have been preserved in the church (see navigation bar).

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  Barbara and her father Dioscuros (left); the priest Valentinus teaches Barbara in the Christian faith (right)

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  Barbara is baptized (left); Barbara gives the order to add a third window in her prison tower as a symbol of the Trinity

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  Barbara is handed over to the Roman governor Marcianus by her father (left); and Barbara is scourged

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  Barbara's breasts are cut off (left); an angel appears and wraps her in a snow-white, shining robe before her torturers

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  Tracery with the year 1538 (bottom left); further scenes from the life of St. Barbara

literature

• Le Patrimoine des Communes des Côtes-d'Armor. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-017-5 , p. 737.
• Françoise Gatouillat, Michel Hérold: Les vitraux de Bretagne. (= Corpus Vitrearum ). Volume VII, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2005, ISBN 2-87535-0151-3 , p. 83.

Web links

Commons : Barbara Window (Moncontour)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Histoire de Sainte Barbe in the Base Palissy of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 21 ′ 41 ″  N , 2 ° 37 ′ 58.2 ″  W.