On the frieze is the following inscription:
TRIBUS AB ORIENTE REGIBUS
DEVICTO IN AGNITIONE VERI NUMINIS
MUNDO
CAPITULUM METROPOL EREXIT.
And above the great window, whose grille is opened on ceremonial occasions to allow the[{261}] public a better view of the relics, is graven the following:
CORPORA SANCTORUM RECUBANT HIC
TERNA MAGORUM
EX HIS SUBLATUM NIHIL EST ALIBIVE
LOCATUM.
Finally one reads the following single line placed between the columns at the right and left of the relics:
"Et apertis thesauris suis, obtulerunt munera."
Behind the reliquary which encloses the skulls is a bas-relief in marble representing the solemn journey by which the relics were first brought from Milan. A bas-relief in bronze, richly gilded, represents an "Adoration." It was the gift of Jacques de Croy, Duc de Cambrai, in 1516. The window above contains some fine glass of the thirteenth century.
Before the high altar are four great candelabra of reddish copper, cast at Liège in 1770.
The sculptured stalls of wood, which range themselves in a double row in the choir, are[{262}] notable for the profusion of figures of men and animals which they show in their carving. They are perhaps not comparable with the stalls at Amiens and at Antwerp, nor with those in Ste. Cécile at Albi in France; but they merit, nevertheless, a very high rank for excellence, and are very extensive as to size and number.
