. Rheims and the battles for its possession . )F THE (ORTHERNrRANSEPT £ F I r. The Central Door of the Northern Transept The sculptural decoration, while rich, is more sober than that of the door-way of the western fagade. It is commemorative of the glory of the Archbishopsof Rheims. The statue of the Pontiff with a tiara, backing up to the dividing-pillar, issupposed to be that of St. Sixtus, first Bishop of Rheims. In the splaying, onthe left, is St. Nicaise holding his head in his hands, between St. Eutropia, anangel and a figure improbably said to be Clovis. The pediment was pierced by a s
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . )F THE (ORTHERNrRANSEPT £ F I r. The Central Door of the Northern Transept The sculptural decoration, while rich, is more sober than that of the door-way of the western fagade. It is commemorative of the glory of the Archbishopsof Rheims. The statue of the Pontiff with a tiara, backing up to the dividing-pillar, issupposed to be that of St. Sixtus, first Bishop of Rheims. In the splaying, onthe left, is St. Nicaise holding his head in his hands, between St. Eutropia, anangel and a figure improbably said to be Clovis. The pediment was pierced by a shell and scarred with splinters. It isdivided into five tiers, and represent the life of St. Remi and St. Nicaise. Beginning at the bottom, the figures represent: on the first tier, the be-heading of St. Nicaise by the Vandals and the Baptism of Clovis by St. Remi;on the second, St. Remi, as a child, restores sight to Montanus and, as aman, exorcises the demons who had set fire to Rheims; on the third, the storyof Job; on the fourth, the restoring to life of a young Toulous
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