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A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), [1] is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the display on an altar of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic Sacramental bread (host) during Eucharistic adoration or during the Benediction of the Blessed ...
The currently used Botafumeiro, made in 2013. The Botafumeiro is a famous thurible used at the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, in Spain.Its name comes from the Galician language, where botar means "to eject, to throw away, to expel", and the Latin fume, meaning "smoke".
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] [b] is a medieval Catholic cathedral on the Île de la Cité (an island in the River Seine), in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France. The cathedral ...
The Phrygian cap was worn during many French historical moments aside from the revolution, such as the constructions of the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the Eiffel Tower, and at the 1924 ...
In front of the cathedral, embedded in the cobblestones, lies a modest bronze-and-stone slab with the inscription “point zéro des routes de France,” meaning “starting point of the roads of France.'' This plaque marks the starting point for measuring distances between Paris and other cities across the country.
The Basilica of Sacré Cœur de Montmartre (English: Sacred Heart of Montmartre), commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica and often simply Sacré-Cœur (French: Sacré-Cœur de Montmartre, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Catholic church and minor basilica in Paris dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Notre Dame Cathedral reopened this weekend, capping off a star-studded Saturday celebration of its restoration with a Sunday mass, its first since a fire nearly destroyed the 12-century landmark ...
The French president Emmanuel Macron has praised the more than 1,000 craftspeople who helped with “the project of the century”: rebuilding Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral after it was gutted by ...