Two Churches: Saint-Sulpice And Saint-Severin

We had wanted to visit three of the churches in the 6th or nearby: Sulpice, Severin, and Saint-Etienne du Mont. As it happened, there were funerals at the former two, delaying us, and we decided to leave Saint-Etienne for next time. While waiting for Saint-Severin we had an opportunity to explore nearby Rue Ringard, however. Next post.

Facade of Saint-Sulpice; many other pix of its exterior in previous
posts as we walked by it; our first visit there was in 2012 with Tawana
and Wes; and we've been back a few times

Nave view

Fancy Baroque pulpit

Famous organ; the great composer Widor was organist
at Saint-Sulpice for more than 60 years  

The Gnomon...for determining solar-based religious
holidays...nothing about the prime meridian nor 
other fancifulness 

As it says here; nonetheless famous, or infamous,
from the Da Vinci Code

Other end

Trap doors in chancel; for deus ex machina acts?

The greater glory of St. Sulpice is the trio of large paintings by
Delacroix, done between 1855 and 1861, descriptions of which
are above [click to enlarge]

Jacob's Fight with the Angel; guess who won

St. Michael Slaying the Dragon; wait a second, isn't that supposed
to be St. George? Or maybe there were lots of dragons around in 
those days, like Game of Thrones?

Heliodorus Driven from the Temple; something 
about money and riches but not the money-lenders;
that came later

Moving right along...but not really, because we had to scoot out
of St. Sulpice for an impending funeral, and then wait for maybe
an hour for St. Severin's funeral to get over...now we are in St. Severin

Capital in the nave; there's a name for these corner/
double capitals, but I can't find it; covers up seams

In the chancel, contemporary windows celebrating
the sacraments, by Jean Rene Bazaine

Famous twisted column

In the good old days, a spring fed the baptistry at Saint-
Severin

Present baptistry, in the chancel

Work on-going in the various chapels...this is a before scene

And the after scene

Historic old church, flamboyant, built in the 13th to be the parish
church for students at the university; rebuilt/remodeled many
times over the centuries

In what might appear to be a cloister, these actually are charnel 
houses adjoining the church; getting spruced-up also; not upen 
to the public