Information Point 11
The Capronnier Windows Depicting the Good Shepherd and Prodigal Son
In the first of these two brightly coloured windows, made in 1867, we see Jesus as the good shepherd in the centre window panel. He looks caringly down at a lamb and the lamb looks upwards trustingly. In the left-hand window panel we see a thief stealing a lamb and in the right-hand window panel we see a bad shepherd running away as a wolf attacks to the flock. Unlike others, Jesus will be the good shepherd. In the second of these two windows, there is a father and two sons. The younger son persuades his father to split his wealth into two shares and to give him his share at once. The younger son then travels to a far-off place where he wastes his inheritance partying. Now he is poor he feels he has no choice but to return home. In the meantime his older brother has been dutifully working hard and obeying his father. When the younger brother returns home, the older brother expects his father to reject his younger brother. But he does not. Instead he orders a fatted calf to be killed for a feast to celebrate his younger son’s return. The older brother is angry, because his hard work has not been celebrated but his father tells him it is right to celebrate his brother’s return because it is not for those who have remained faithful to complain.