Notre Dame Cathedral

[Brendan]

Somehow, when the gargoyles dominate all the top positions, I don’t read ‘defeat’ of evil. Why not 5,000 (good) angels instead of 5,000 gargoyles? They could be holding watering cans for the ‘water spouts’.

Because St. Romain didn’t defeat an angel with a watering can, he defeated a water spitting monster.

And the pinnacle of the Cathedral was the cross, THAT was what was in the top position, directly over the transcept. So the cross defeats any multitude of evil creatures, all that is evil is subjected to the Cross.

Or should it only be angels that are subject to the Cross?

personally, I am quite comfortable with the thought that the three Archbishops who had a hand in the construction of the Cathedral of Notre Dame du Paris, understood and approved the theology represented in the art. The same can be said for all the subsequent Archbishops who incorporated grotesques (the true architectural term) into their Cathedrals modeled after Paris.

If so many bishops approved and even collaborated with such art over the course of multiple centuries, why should you or I gainsay them?

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[Contra_Mundum_1]

All in all, I’d have to take a pass on visiting this structure…just too eerie, for me, and too many beautiful and uplifting churches to enjoy instead.

I hope you will change your mind about this. Notre Dame is one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. Especially at night with only candle light inside. Heavenly.

 

[oldcelt]

I hope you will change your mind about this. Notre Dame is one of the most beautiful churches I have ever seen. Especially at night with only candle light inside. Heavenly.

I hope to make it before the final curtain.