The pictures from Lent illustrate the Passion and comprise several scenes showing Jesus in Gethsemane clad in an almost thunder-blue kirtle. This colour has been the starting-point for the creation of the violet chasuble, contrasting as it does with a clearer shade of violet and with the deep green colour of the grass, which is again repeated in the lining of the chasuble. The silver cross on the back contrasts with a big crown of thorns on a coppery brown background - the same colour that forms the background for the embroidery on the front showing sprouting thorn trees. The principal motif is the inscription INRI on the cross, where the three nails of the cross form the vertical lines.

The chasuble with its sombre colours is intended to stress the seriousness of Advent and Lent. But the thorn trees are growing fresh shoots with buds of silver to indicate Christmas and Easter.

For the Queen the great church festivals cannot be festive enough, for which reason half of the fabric used in the white chasuble is interwoven with gold thread, and the back is decorated with a large gold-embroidered lily - a sparkling symbol of the Resurrection. Wings have been woven into the broad ribbons that embellish the front, and allude to the Heavenly Hosts on Christmas Eve. Also displayed is Christ's monogram XP (Greek, chi rho) in a rose-red mandorla, or pointed oval field that often frames in the figure of Christ in Byzantine and Roman art. The backs of all the chasubles for Århus Cathedral have been specifically designed in order to refer to the part of the ecclesiastical year during which the chasuble in question is to be used, whereas the fronts focus more clearly on Christ.