Subjects of The Panels
The sequence starts from the bottom of the left door, going upwards, then to the right door going down. Adalbert ("he") is the centre of all scenes.
- 1) His birth and baptism, in two scenes
- 2) As a sick child he is saved by being placed on an altar dedicated to the Virgin Mary
- 3) His parents place him in the monastery at Magdeburg at his request
- 4) He prays before a shrine (with knocker)
- 5) Emperor Otto II gives him his bishop's crozier, which happened at Verona
- 6) He expels a demon from a possessed man
- 7) He has a vision of Christ telling him to save Christians in slavery
- 8) He pleads with the Duke of Bohemia for the release of some slaves
- 9) The accident of the wine pitcher - when he dropped one it did not break
- 10) He lands in Gdansk by ship (top of right door)
- 11) He makes conversions there
- 12) He preaches
- 13) He says Mass on the morning of his death, with hostile Prussians on the right
- 14) He is martyred by two men, while his companions watch
- 15) His body is exposed in the open, with his severed head on a stake; an eagle guards it (with knocker)
- 16) His remains are bought by the Polish ruler from the Prussians, for their weight in gold
- 17) His remains are taken back to Gniezno
- 18) His remains are buried in Gniezno Cathedral (bottom of right door)
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