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The Clerestory Windows / Las Clerestory Ventanas
Saint Paul's Cathedral has 14 clerestory windows. These have been designed from the units of the symbols of the twelve Apostles. But because two above this number were called for, over the Sanctuary, there were added the symbols of St. John the Baptist and of St. Stephen the Martyr. These small clerestory windows - they are only 6 feet high as compared with the great size of the rest of the windows in the Cathedral - stand about fifty feet above eye level. Consequently they have had to be very simple in design. The lead lines have had to be exaggeratedly wide - two and a half inches - in order that, so far away, they can carry the weight of the design and not disapear.
	*Saint John the Baptist*	Starting with the window on the Epistle side of the Sanctuary, we have St. John the Baptist, whose attribute is the nimbed lamb because St. John the Baptist pointed to Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God. In the crook of his right leg this lamb holds a red banner with a cross of Victory on the top. He stands on the Book. Above is a locust, with wings outspread, in remembrance of St. John the Baptist having fed upon locusts in the desert.
	*San Juan Bautista*
	Saint John the Evangelist	St. John the Evangelist comes next in our clerestroy windows. His principle attribute is the eagle, as the symbol of the highest aspiration. Above this eagle I have shown the chalice of poisoned wine that St. John had once been commanded to drink by the Emperor Domitian. Obeying the Emperor's orders, John drank and the poison departed in the form of a snake. At the bottom of the window I have depicted the cauldron of boiling fat into which St. John was thrown and from which he emerged unhurt.
	*San Juan Evangelista*
	Saint Andrew	St. Andrew the Apostle, brother of Simon Peter, the fisherman of Bethsaida in Galilee, was one of the first disciples of Christ. So, as a fisherman, he is identified with a design of two fishes and, behind them, a great boathook. He is said to have been crucified on a cross in the shape of an X. This is his attribute, and as such he is known as the patron saint of Scotland.
	*San Andrés*
	Saint Philip	We come next to St. Philip. He is associated chiefly with the feeding of the Five Thousand (John 6) and a design of loaves and fishes is included. But because, according to legend, he found a great serpent being worshipped in the City of Hierapolis, and, aided by the cross, caused the serpent to disappear, and thus is shown with the serpent entwined in the patriarchal cross.
	*San Felipe*
	*Saint Batholomew*	There is little known of St. Bartholomew. He was supposed to have traveled east as far as India. While preaching in Armenia, on his return journey, he was seized by the heathens, flayed alive and then crucified. His attribute is the large scimitar, of peculiar shape, that was the instrument of his martyrdom. A branch of the fig tree mentioned in John I is included in this design. There is an open Bible and three flaying knives placed vertically upon it.
	*San Bartolomé*
	Saint Stephen	We move now to the Gospel side and the first clerestory window in the sanctuary pays tribute to Stephen, the first Christian deacon and the first martyr for the Faith. And so we show the deacon's vestment, with the palm of martyrdom laid across the bottom part of the robe. Above is a censer, considered an attribute of St. Stephen. The stones that were the instruments of his killing are placed in the background.
	*San Esteban*
	*Saint Simon*	St. Simon was the companion of St. Jude on many of his missionary journeys. His most familiar symbol is a book upon which lies a fish. This is because he was a great fisher of men, through the power of the Gospel. There is also an oar and a battle axe, and a fish impaled on a boat hook.
	*San Simon*
	*Saint Jude*	St. Jude traveled far with St. Simon on missionary journeys. Hence, he is given the attribute of a sailboat and a boathook. For some unspecified reason he is given, also, a carpenter's square, a knotted club and a lance. Behind these elements we see an inverted cross.
	*San Judas*
	*Saint Matthew*	We all associate St. Matthew with money bags. Before becoming one of Christ's disciples, he was a tax collector in the service of the Romans. But, too, he is portrayed as a writer of the Gospel. And so, beneath these money bags and the coins, is shown a scroll and a pen. At the top of the window is the battle axe, which was the instrument of his martyrdom.
	*San Mateo*
	Saint James the Lesser	The attribute of St. James the Lesser is a vertical saw because his dead body was sawn asunder after he had been taken to the top of a tall building and pushed into mid-air. Seriously injured, he staggered to his knees, imploring the Lord to forgive his enemies. The enraged crowd stoned him and a fuller dashed out his brains with a fuller's bat that is shown here, against the stones.
	San Santiago
	Saint Thomas	The final clerestory window near the entrance to the Cathedral is dedicated to the glory of St. Thomas. This Apostle is said to have erected with his own hands a church building at Malipur, in East India; hence the carpenter's square. He is the patron saint of builders. He was stoned, shot down with arrows and left dying alone, until a pagan priest ran him through with a spear. This window shows the arrows and spears.
	*San Tomás Apostol*