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New Testament - Public life of Christ - miracles of Christ - Healing a Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda

John 5:1-15: "After this] there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. 3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water,[m] someone else goes down there before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)"

Scene Description: John 5:1-15: "After this] there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways. 3 A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways. 5 Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?” 7 The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water,[m] someone else goes down there before me.” 8 Jesus said to him, “Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.” 9 Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)"

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP79W00541] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP79W00540] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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Old Testament - Genesis - Noah - God sends a dove

Scene Description: Genesis 8:8: "Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 June 2023 by Florian Pépellin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font_baptismal_Église_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_(juin_2023).JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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Old Testament - Moses - water from the rock

Exodus 17:6: "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." [KJV]

Scene Description: Exodus 17:6: "Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel." [KJV]

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph [https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP79W00539] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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Old Testament - prophets - Elijah - Naaman Healed of Leprosy

2 Kings 5: "Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy [...] "

Scene Description: 2 Kings 5: "Now Naaman was commander of the army of the king of Aram. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded, because through him the Lord had given victory to Aram. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy [...] "

design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: part of the 19thC font

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Niort"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2023 by Chris06 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2023_Eglise_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_(03).jpg] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue du font baptismal de l'église Notre-Dame de Niort, dans les Deux-Sèvres."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2023 by Florian Pépellin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Font_baptismal_Église_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_(juin_2023).JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Niort"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2016 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_14.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue d'un bénitier dans l'église Notre-Dame de Niort, dans les Deux-Sèvres."

Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2023 by Florian Pépellin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bénitier_Église_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_(juin_2023).JPG] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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view of stoup in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Église Notre-Dame de Niort" -- showing a holy-eater stoup in the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph 11 August 2016 by Chatsam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Église_Notre-Dame_de_Niort_10.jpg] [accessed 16 March 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03093NIO

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise [ancien prieuré] de Notre-Dame à Niort

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: 1 Rue de la Cure, 79000 Niort, France -- Tel.: +33 5 49 73 30 20

Country Name: France

Location: Deux-Sèvres, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Directions to Site: Niort is located off the D850, W of the A10, S of the A83, about 65 km WSW of Poitiers.

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Poitiers

Historical Region: Poitou-Charentes

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the "Chapelle des fonts baptismaux"

Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic [composite font]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: pentagonal font

Church Notes: "église de Saint-Florent" documented ca.800, 1050, 1227; restored 1386-1411; re-built between 1500 and 1600; damaged in the Wars of Religion; restored 17thC; re-purposed by the Revolution in 1793; restored to the cult in 1797; restored and renovates since -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00101284]: "L'édifice a subi plusieurs transformations, comme l'abaissement de sa toiture ou son changement d'orientation. La nef, peut-être inachevée au 14e siècle, a été transformée en choeur au 17e siècle tandis que, du côté de l'ancien chevet, deux portes latérales étaient percées à l'extrémité des bas-côtés, donnant à cette partie d'édifice le rôle de façade principale. Le transept est orné d'une tribune Renaissance."

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted in Salvini (1967). Described in Delpal's guide (France, 1985) as "early 16th C[ent.] Flamboyant font with bas-reliefs". Listed in Palissy [ref.: PM79000086]: "Fonts baptismaux [...] Calcaire [...] Oeuvre recomposé [...] 6 reliefs sculptés du 16e siècle ont été enchâssés dans les côtés de fonts baptismaux du 19e siècle [...] Moïse faisant jaillir une source ; Noé lâchant la colombe ; Baptême du Christ [...] Chapelle des fonts baptismaux". Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP79W00539, AP79W00540, AP79W00541].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.3228, -0.466

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 19′ 22.08″ N, 0° 27′ 57.6″ W

UTM: 30T 695066 5133035

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: pentagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: pentagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal pyramid; 19thC?

REFERENCES

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Mémoire / POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine (Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général), 2024. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/search/mosaic?base=%5B%22Photographies%20%28M%C3%A9moire%29%22%5D.

France, Ministère de la culture, Inventaire Général, Palissy (France, Ministère de la culture), France, Ministère de la culture. Accessed: 2025-03-16 00:00:00. URL: http://www.culture.fr/public/mistral/palissy.

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

Salvini, Joseph, "Une énigme archéologique : les fonts baptismaux de notre-Dame de Niort et la symbolique du baptême", t. 9, 2e trimestre 1967, Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires de l' Ouest, 1967, pp. 153-158; p. 153-158