Notre-Dame cathedral Paris is on fire

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Yea, I noticed. But of course we all need to remember that is up to us, we are The Church. Catholics around the world need to support the project. We can’t assume the Church has a pool of hundreds of millions of dollars sitting around that can be used for this project, it doesn’t.
 
Seeing some photos of the interior now. I realize there are structural integrity concerns, but it honestly doesn’t look that bad in there. The altar cross was still standing.
 
What a tradition that church has, apart from its beauty and religious relics. I was there in the 1970’s. A terrible loss.
 
I am also (pleasantly) surprised by some of the pictures. Still, it will take a massive project for the rebuilding.
 
It doesn’t look like the High Altar was touched. Above all, I hope they removed the Blessed Sacrament.
 
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Yea, I noticed. But of course we all need to remember that is up to us, we are The Church. Catholics around the world need to support the project.
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I’m ready and willing.
tafan2 said:
We can’t assume the Church has a pool of hundreds of millions of dollars sitting around that can be used for this project, it doesn’t.
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Of course I am happy to hear no one was seriously injured. However I am so sad to hear and see this. I’ve cried and prayed over this, this and the little boy that was injured in the Mall of America, heard about both on my way home from work. Does anyone know if the rose stained glass windows were saved or any of the relics? Like the Crown of Thorns or the splinter of wood from the Cross that Christ was crucified on? I been hearing conflicting accounts and I thought they said the original or some of the original rose stained glass had been removed prior to the fire along with the statues around the spire. Very happy that they removed the Blessed Sacrament!!
 
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@Tis_Bearself That is great news. I pray the Cathedral will not be to far gone before the fire is out to be saved
 
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It’s already out, President Macron was walking around in it looking at the damage and journalists are posting pictures of the damaged inside.
 
@Tis_Bearself Great news! Thanks for sharing with us. Do you have any links. They are talking about it on the KISS faq forum (KISS band ) all sad to see this happen. Christians and non Christians a like. Been the official update person on the off topic section over there. I’ve been praying ever since I heard about the fire and glad it is out.
 
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I’ve been to mass there as I remember once…a while ago. How sad! The recent pictures show that much of it is still ok. I’ll plan to go to mass there again in the next 50 years or so…
 
The way medieval cathedrals were built means that there is a stone vaulted ceiling with a wood and lead roof over top of it. From the pictures, it appears that the fire only burned the roof and the vast majority stone vaulted ceiling held firm, except for where the spire fell. This helped the interior to remain mostly untouched, all things considered. This gives me much hope!

Hopefully, much of the interior can be saved, including the grand Cavaille-Coll organ.
 
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Crown of Thorns was saved. I believe the other relics in the treasury were saved too.
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I don’t know about how the Cathedral stored that stuff, but a lot of churches (even small ones) have safes and vaults - literally like bank vaults - in which they keep those treasures, including the eucharists, patens, and so on - often because they are gold, or gold-plated, extremely sacred, and so on.

People are probably familiar with how the US Constitution is protected at the National Archives. Imagine how much more important the crown of thorns is, and you can see why they may have had it very well-kept under a fire-proof/crush-proof container of some sort, possibly even a more modern, underground vault or something…

I think they probably would have done this, especially when you think of how the Shroud of Turin almost got burned up… Now, it’s like, even when the STURP Team did its research, they literally had armed guards (with machine guns) surrounding the team at every point… so security on the Shroud relic went from something vulnerable to being actually burned (even if only a little) - to something protected like the a presidential motorcade…
 
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