| The nuns' church of Heligkreuztal was built c 1300. The great east window, commissioned by Abbess Elizabeth Stepheln (1305-12) is from c 1320. It consists of 40 panels, fourteen of them depicting saints. The bottom row features the Virgin with the donor abbess kneeling at her feet plus three women saints. The second row up has four male saints, a bishop on the left and a deacon on the right, and between them in the middle on the right an abbot in black carrying a crozier and a book (St Benedict) and on the left an abbot in white also with a crozier in his left hand and his right hand raised in blessing (Bernard). Bernard's halo is red and the crozier yellow.
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