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Stained glass window, Ambulatory, Bourges Cathedral, Bourges, Centre Val de Loire, France

The good man and the sinner, with an altar with eucharist chalice separating, on the right, a priest who excommunicates a miser (purse around his neck) who will be thrown into the fire of hell, and another priest on the left gives a dying believer absolution, from the stained glass window of the Last Judgement, 1215-25, in bay 4, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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The good man and the sinner, with an altar with eucharist chalice separating, on the right, a priest who excommunicates a miser (purse around his neck) who will be thrown into the fire of hell, and another priest on the left gives a dying believer absolution, from the stained glass window of the Last Judgement, 1215-25, in bay 4, in the ambulatory of Bourges Cathedral or the Cathedrale Saint-Etienne de Bourges, built 1195-1230 in French Gothic style and consecrated in 1324, in Bourges, Centre-Val de Loire, France. 22 of the original 25 medieval stained glass windows of the ambulatory have survived. The cathedral is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen