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Dear Marjorie,
You're quite right on the stained glass scene. I had wondered about Nicasius of Rouen being venerated at Soissons but didn't have the time to double-check my source (had the image not been so wonderful I would just have let it go). See:
http://tinyurl.com/3b9awg
But the semi-cephalophore at Ecouis is so close to Rouen (and is said to have been carved from stone from nearby Vernon) that I think he has to be the N. of the Vexin normand. Cephalophory is alas not a very distinguishing trait among French episcopal saints.
Best again,
John Dillon
On Saturday, October 13, 2007, at 12:00 pm, Marjorie Greene wrote:
> John, You wrote:
>
> > A view of a thirteenth-century scene of N.'s
> > martyrdom by decapitation now
> > in the Louvre and said to have come from a chapel
> > window of the cathedral
> > of Soissons:
> > http://tinyurl.com/3xk52j
> > Here's a view of N.'s early fourteenth-century
> > statue in the église collégiale
> > Notre-Dame at Ecouis (Eure), showing him as a
> > partial cephalophore:
> >
> http://www.collegiale-ecouis.asso.fr/photos/nicaise.JPG
>
> Is it possible these are scenes of the "real" Nicaise,
> first bishop of Reims and founder, so to speak, of the
> cathedral on whose foundations the present church was
> built? He was decapitated on the steps of said church
> (if I remember correctly). There is a partial
> cephalore at Reims but I couldn't find an on-line
> image. Nicaise of Reims' feast is in December, the
> 14th I think.
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