It is true - Notre Dame reopens on December 8th 2024. No pictures so far - I guess it will be the great reveal. There are lots of pictures online of various stages There's the rooster back on top - it is said to be protecting a piece of Jesus Christ's crown of thorns.
It was under $1 billion US and 5 years to restore.
There's the picture of the rooster on top of the cathedral spire. That went on in March after the cathedral's new spire was revealed in February. Is the crown of thorns with the rooster or somewhere in the cathedral? I think in the cathedral. But there seem to be more pieces in other places - for example, it is listed as being in the Louvre.
The pictures look like the whole crown of thorns is at Notre Dame... too hard for us Lutherans to figure out. When we visited, I wasn't attuned to the purported sacred relics - crown of thorns, a piece of the cross and the Tunic of Saint Louis.
My background is German. Germans in Niagara are Mennonite or Lutheran, on average. The Lutheran Church's focus was reading and studying the Bible. That would be because Luther was the one who defiantly translated the Bible from Latin into German so people (compared to priests) could read it and find out the messages for themselves. The Catholic Church was corrupt at the time, and people found out that they didn't have to buy their way into Heaven with indulgences.
Without those indulgences would we have the grand legacy of the Catholic grand cathedrals. I can't imagine how many beautiful catholic cathedrals there might be. In France alone, they seem to be in every village, town and city.
Without any doubt, we will be celebrating the restoration of this 861-year-old masterpiece on December 8th. Only five years to restore it compared to almost 200 years to build it.
How will it be reopened?
"After Macron’s speech, the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich, will officiate the reopening by knocking on the cathedral’s main door with his staff. In a symbolic gesture, he will “wake up” the cathedral’s grand organ, which will be accompanied by a musical performance, including a rendition of Bach’s Magnificat and a Te Deum."
Brace for 20 million people a year to visit it. That's astonishing!
This is the conservatory at the University of Guelph. I found this in the archives, and used the generative AI to block out the building behind it to create this pleasant setting. And then used the watercolour filter to create this nostalgic version.
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