. Rheims and the battles for its possession . ornamented with three bas-reliefs: St. Remi receiving the Sacred Ampulla,St. Benedict imploring the Holy Spirit, and St. Benedict giving the Injunctionto his monks. As far as the pulpit, on both sides of the nave, the granitecolumns resting on the piers date from the Gallo-Roman period. The side-aisles of the nave are surmounted with a triforium (photo above)with semi-circular vaulting at right-angles to the nave. The south aisle isalmost entirely in ruins (photo, p. 107).. THE NAVE AND CHOIR IN 1919 110 The Tapestries The priceless tapestries whic
. Rheims and the battles for its possession . ornamented with three bas-reliefs: St. Remi receiving the Sacred Ampulla,St. Benedict imploring the Holy Spirit, and St. Benedict giving the Injunctionto his monks. As far as the pulpit, on both sides of the nave, the granitecolumns resting on the piers date from the Gallo-Roman period. The side-aisles of the nave are surmounted with a triforium (photo above)with semi-circular vaulting at right-angles to the nave. The south aisle isalmost entirely in ruins (photo, p. 107).. THE NAVE AND CHOIR IN 1919 110 The Tapestries The priceless tapestries which, before the war, decorated the tribunals ofthe side-aisles, were saved. Those given 1>\ Robert de Lenoncourt and restored by Les Gobelins, are rich in composition and decorative effect. In an architectural frame of the Renaissance period, the) represent the following legendary scenes from thelife I St. Remi. the costumes belonging to the period of Francois I.:— 1. The blind hermit Muiiiamis visits the new-born Remi, who, touching himwith his lingers wet with milk, restores his sight. 2. The hermit St. Remi. called by the people to the bishopric, receives themitre. 3. Four miracles are performed by the saint: he extinguishes a fire lightedby demons in the city; he restores life to a girl; he is served at table byangels; when wine ran short at the table of his cousin Celsa, he blessed anempty cask, which was immediately filled. 1. The Battle of Tolbiac; Clovis instructed and baptized by Remi;
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