The Metropolitan Museum's artwork for today is a Bodhisattva statue .
Today let's have a look at some of the cathedral's famous stained-glass windows.
At the official site's Galerie , there are 22 pictures of windows, most involving angels. Stained glass windows were used in the middle ages to tell stories to the mostly illiterate populace. Some stories come from the Old Testament, for example, Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac . Many, of course, are from the New Testament, such as this especially lovely depiction of the Annunciation , and this illustration of the Ascension . Others are of saints and illustrious Church figures, e.g., the Conversion of St. Paul and Pope Pius IX .