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Notre-Dame de Paris (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris French: [nɔtʁ(ə) dam də paʁi] ⓘ; meaning "Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris"), often referred to simply as Notre-Dame, [a] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Notre-Dame de Paris, 14th century. The Virgin of the pillar or Notre-Dame de Paris is a title of the Blessed Virgin that is associated with a near life-size stone statue, 1.8 metres tall, of the Virgin and Child created in the early 14th century. The statue was transferred to Notre-Dame in 1818, it was first placed in the over mantal of the ...
The Notre Dame football team's history began when the Michigan team brought the game to Notre Dame in 1887 and played against a group of students. [309] Since then, 13 Fighting Irish teams have won consensus national championships (although the university only claims 11), [ 293 ] along with another nine teams being named national champions by ...
A work of passion. On the night of the fire, with the air still acrid with smoke, Macron made a solemn promise. “We will rebuild Notre Dame. Because that’s what the French expect and because ...
It took over 100 years to complete. At the time, Paris was a burgeoning political, economic and intellectual center in Europe. De Sully wanted Notre-Dame to reflect that. Why is Notre-Dame so well ...
Five years after it was nearly destroyed in a devastating fire, Notre Dame de Paris formally reopened on Saturday with a two-hour ceremony inside the famed cathedral’s gleaming, newly renovated ...
Father Edward Sorin, C.S.C., founder. In 1839, the bishop of Vincennes, Right Rev. Célestine Guynemer de la Hailandière, had contacted Rev. Basil Moreau, C.S.C., founder of the Congregation of Holy Cross, and expressed to him his concern over the lack of Catholic education in his diocese and pleaded for Moreau to send him a priest and four brothers to set up a school.
COMMENT: Despite Notre Dame’s return as the spiritual centre of Paris, its reconstruction is a tribute to former glories rather than a sign that France or Europe is enjoying a renaissance, Mark ...