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In the eleventh-century episcopal catalogue of Chartres Lubin (in Latin, Leobinus, Leubinus, Lubinus; in French, Lubin or Loubin) is the sixteenth bishop. According to his seemingly ninth-century Vita (BHL 4847), he was a Gallo-Roman native of Poitou who had a monastic education, became a disciple of St. Avitus of the Perche, was captured by Franks who tortured him, returned to Avitus and stayed with him until the latter's death, then was ordained deacon, became head of a monastery, and finally bishop of Chartres. He signed the Acta of the synods of Orléans in 549 and Paris in 552; the year of his death is unknown. 14. March is his _dies natalis_ and his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology. The ninth-century crypt beneath Chartres' cathedral is named for Lubin; a plan and a partial view are here:
http://home.eckerd.edu/~oberhot/visitor-normandy.htm
Some period-pertinent images of St. Lubin:
a) as depicted (scenes from his Vita) in the early thirteenth-century Life of St. Lubin window (bay 45; ca. 1205-1215) in the nave of the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame in Chartres (click on the yellow links for individual images; click on those images for higher resolution):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres/w45-63.htm
The window as photographed by Gordon Plumb (click on the images for higher resolution):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/sets/72157606495067486/
b) as depicted (with two donors) in another thirteenth-century window (bay 139) in the nave of the basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame in Chartres:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres/w139c-whole.htm
The window as a whole:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres/NaveNbay2.htm
c) as depicted in a later fourteenth-century panel (1270) in a clerestory window (bay 224) in the nave of the église Saint-Pere [i.e. Pierre] in Chartres:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres-st-pere/w224c.htm
The window as a whole:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres-st-pere/w224.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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