We find the flat vault technique again with the addition of texts painted on the ribs and cased ceiling.

 

Below the windows a « bas-relief » repeats the theme with images.

 

They show the Virgin Mary’s emblems. Faced with the great trials of the end of the Middle-Ages (wars, epidemics) the faithful wrote prayers to Mary. They were written after the Song of Songs, a poem in the Old Testament.

 

Mary is depicted as the walled garden, David’s Tower, the exalted cedar, the house of God, the Temple of God, the window of Heaven, the lily among thorns, the stainless mirror and the City of God.

 

 

 

On your right you can admire the « bas-relief » of the City of God. It is a town at the bottom of a valley, surrounded with water with fortified gates as well as mills in the vicinity, reminding us of La Ferté-Bernard.

 

We discover new stained-glass windows showing the lives of two saints on the right. Below a life of Saint Julien, once bishop of Le Mans, and over a life of Saint Nicolas.

 

On the far left another stained-glass picture depicts the incredulity of Saint Thomas, the apostle who would not believe in the resurrection of Jesus.