page_title: Saint-Pol-de-Léon Cathedral
section_title: The Rose window
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Pol-de-Léon Cathedral / The south transept / The Rose window
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vitrail de Lobin (Tours) daté de 1873 dans la cathédrale Saint-Paul-Aurélien de Saint-Pol-de-Léon. Plusieurs scènes sont représentées&#160;: l'Arrestation de Jésus, Jésus devant Pilate, la Dérision, Véronique, la Crucifixion, la Déposition de la Croix. Dans le cœur de la rose se trouve représentée la Trinité. La première couronne de la rose est occupée par des anges musiciens, orants et thuriféraires. La deuxième couronne comporte des rois jouant de la harpe ou portant des flambeaux. Les troisième et quatrième couronnes comportent des trilobes et des quadrilobes garnies de feuillages. This object is indexed in the base Palissy, database of the French furniture patrimony of the French ministry of culture,&#160;under the reference&#160;IM29000791. беларуская (тарашкевіца)‎&#160;| brezhoneg&#160;| català&#160;| Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| español&#160;| suomi&#160;| français&#160;| magyar&#160;| italiano&#160;| македонски&#160;| Plattdüütsch&#160;| português&#160;| українська&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: Paul Aurelian Cathedral was a Roman Catholic cathedral, now basilica, in Saint-Pol-de-Léon, in France .Saint-Pol-de-Léon is a commune in the Finistère department in Brittany in north-western France. It is noted for the 13th-century cathedral which stands on the site of the original church founded by Saint Paul Aurélien in the 6th century and the Notre-Dame du Kreisker Chapel, with its 80-metre-high spire, the highest in Brittany. It was also the scene of the a battle during the Breton War of Succession, where the Montfortists and their English allies defeated an army led by Charles of Blois.
context_section_description: This window was the work of the Lobin glass painting workshop in Tours and dates to 1873. At the heart of the window is a depiction of the "Holy Trinity" and around this image are eight depictions of angels playing various musical instruments and in a ring around these eight depictions are a further sixteen depictions of prophets, martyrs and saints either singing or playing instruments. A veritable celestial choir!  Six panels at the base of the window depict, from left to right, Judas' kiss of betrayal, Jesus in front of Pontius Pilate, Jesus being mocked, Jesus on the journey to Calvary, the crucifixion and the descent from the cross. Beneath this window are two enfeus. That on the left bears the coat of arms of the Kersauzon family and the enfeu on the right bears the coat of arms of Louet-Kersauzon and the coat of arms of Kergorlay. In this area is another enfeu with a marble plaque reading "Cy gist le corps de dame Marguerite Bréhant, dame de Lavergat, more le 18e jour d'août 1713, pries pour le repos de son âme". Here one can see a small door which was at one time used to access the cemetery which once surrounded the cathedral. Near to this rose window is an altar in white marble dedicated to the Sacré-Coeur. In the transept vaulting are four écus carrying the coats of arms of some of the families who contributed to the construction and ornamentation of the transept, the Plessis family, the family of Lescoët Barbier, the Richard family and the Chavignés. The window was a gift from some Saint-Pol-de-Léon clerics.
  Also in the south transept is a statue of Joan of Arc by Charles Desvergnes and nearby a statue of saint Paul Aurélien.  There is also a statue of saint Anthony the Hermit (51) dating to 1750. and nearby two crucifix. One dates to the 15th century and came from the "Crucifix des Champs" one of the seven parishes of Minihy-Léon. The second crucifix is known as the "Crucifix de la ville". There is also a painting of Jesus on the cross entitled "La Déploration". This oil painting is signed  Charles Lefebvre and dates to 1846.  It was a gift to the cathedral from Napoleon III in around 1860. The Virgin Mary is shown kissing Jesus' feet. Beneath this painting is an enfeu which bears the coat of arms of Trédern, a family who lived at Plougoulm. According to Peyron, Guillaume de Trédern, a canon of Léon had founded a chapel devoted to Saint Jérôme in 1510 and an altar can be seen to the right of the enfeu, this altar dedicated to Saint Jérôme.
  Another oil painting in this area is entitled "Présentation de la règle des Minimes par Saint François de Paule". This 17th-centiury painting is located to the left of Lefebvre's masterpiece. It came from the Minimes chapel which was demolished in 1893. It depicts a Franciscan friar, almost certainly Saint Francis of Paola, holding the book laying down the rules of the Minimes group. On the book is an inscription reading "Haec regula mitis et sancta".  He holds the book up to a crowd of onlookers which includes various clerics.
  
  The third painting in the south transept depicts the Annunciation.  It had been displayed in the cathedral choir area during the 1901 celebration when the cathedral was designated a basilica; the basilica of the Annunciation. Just by this painting and in the third ogive there is a cartouche surmounted by a mitre and cross carried by two angels. The cartouche bears the coat of arms of Monseigneur Guy le Clerc who was the Léon bishop from 1514 to 1521 and his motto "Battons et Abattons". Guy le Clerc was almoner to Queen Claude de France, the wife of François the First.
caption: Rose window. At the centre of the rose is a representation of the "Trinity". At the base of the window lancets depict Jesus' arrest, Jesus in front of Pontius Pilate, Jesus being mocked and beaten ("la Dérision"), the journey to Calvary, the crucifixion and the descent from the cross.
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