We visited Bourges and its Cathedral of St. Etienne twice in 2013, and I posted several items on this, one of our favorite churches:
http://roadeveron.blogspot.ca/2013/09/bourges-cathedral-again.html,
http://roadeveron.blogspot.ca/2013/05/bourges-cathedral-of-st-etienne-1.html, and
http://roadeveron.blogspot.ca/2013/05/bourges-cathedral-of-st-etienne-2.html. So I won't do the whole thing again, much as I like looking at it all again. Here are just a few pix, hopefully not (much) duplicating previous posts.
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| Standard view from the garden, starboard bow |
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There is a good deal of Medieval sculpture at Bourges; this
the least of it, but interesting |
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| Play of stained light |
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One among the many reasons to like Bourges is the very ample
signage all over the great building; and in English, too |
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| Thus; see below |
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Bourges' meridian, as explained above, a device
for ascertaining the precisely right time to
celebrate whatever you're celebrating; it's the
straight line under the chairs |
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Speaking of which, this was the Feast of the Assumption, a
national holiday in France; they made all us pagan tourists
leave, but I got this one shot; not pictured, a handful of gendarmes
in and about the church, full body armor and automatic weapons
(another terrorist incident recently, the radicals evidently trying
to provoke a religious war) |
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| Thus |
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| St. Ursin window; I can't resist posting just a few... |
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| "Double, double, toil and trouble"...wait, no |
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| Nice jaws of Hell |
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| Christian graffiti |
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| More play of stained light |
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