From the end of a Sunday Mass in #NotreDame cathedral in April 2017. The recently restored organ had more than 8,000 pipes ❤ pic.twitter.com/3IVq5f6BLT— Elise Aasen (@TheEliselise) April 15, 2019
Kings, emperors, saints, and presidents have all had a role in #NotreDame's history.— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019
Here's a look back pic.twitter.com/5HkBuVyYS3
These are some of the treasures inside Paris’ Notre-Dame cathedral #NotreDameFire pic.twitter.com/22PLIVzKdv— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019
Notre Dame's collapse — and the loss of what it stood for https://t.co/inKWcH2eCB— Steve Forbes (@SteveForbesCEO) April 17, 2019
New York Post
written by Rich Lowry
Monday April 15, 2019
“I believe that this church offers the carefully discerning such cause for admiration,” the 14th-century French philosopher Jean de Jandun wrote of Notre Dame, “that its inspection can scarcely sate the soul.”
A cultural calamity played out on live TV when the cathedral that has been a focal point of Christendom for so long was gutted by a raging fire, destroying a significant part of an inheritance built up over hundreds of years in a few hours.
Notre Dame stands for so many qualities that we now lack — patience and staying power, the cultivation of beauty, a deep religious faith, a cultural confidence and ambition that could create a timeless monument of our civilization — that the collapse of its spire was almost too much to bear.
The great novelist Victor Hugo, who did so much to revive interest in the cathedral when it was in disrepair in the 19th century, wrote of how “every surface, every stone of this venerable pile, is a page of the history, not only of the country, but of science and art.”
It was the work of generations, completed over the course of 300 years, in a triumph over considerable architectural and logistical challenges.
It arose at the original site of a pagan temple. Thousands of tons of stone had to be transported from outside Paris for it, one ox cart or barge at a time. To achieve its soaring height and hold up its ceiling and walls, it relied on the innovative use of the rib vault and flying buttress.
France built 80 cathedrals and 500 large churches across this period, but there was only one Notre Dame of Paris, a Gothic jewel whose towers, prior to the advent of the Eiffel Tower, were the tallest structure in Paris.
It is — or, one hates to think, was — adorned by what are significant cultural artifacts in their own right.
The statuary meant to illustrate the story of the Bible and to awe worshipers who couldn’t read.
The stained-glass windows that took considerable ingenuity to embed in stone walls and are themselves artistic marvels.
The organ with more than 8,000 pipes. The bells, with their own names, including the largest, the masterpiece Emmanuel, dating back to the 15th century and recast in 1681.
Not to mention the relics that mean so much to the Catholic faithful.
It has been the site of countless processions and services to petition and thank God on behalf of the French nation.
It was where illustrious marriages occurred, where Napoleon crowned himself emperor, where Charles de Gaulle attended a Mass to celebrate the liberation of Paris in 1944, rifle fire echoing outside.
It survived the rampages of iconoclastic Huguenots in the 16th century, the depredations of radicals during the French Revolution in the 18th century (they transformed it into a shrine to the Cult of Reason, used it as a warehouse and wanted to melt down the bells) and incidental damage during two world wars in the 20th century.
All the while, it accumulated layers of history and meaning.
Its great advocate Hugo wrote of how “the greatest productions of architecture are not so much the work of individuals as of a community; are rather the offspring of a nation’s labor than the out-come of individual genius; the deposit of a whole people; the heaped-up treasure of centuries; the residuum left by the successive evaporations of human society; in a word, a species of formations.”
He added: “Each wave of time leaves its coating of alluvium, each race deposits its layers on the monuments, each individual contributes his stone to it.”
Notre Dame has been thoughtfully restored and preserved over the years, to our credit. But it’s difficult not to discern a distressing message in the wanton destruction that ravaged the iconic cathedral — what prior generations so carefully and faithfully built, we are losing.
— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 15, 2019
The chaplain of the Paris Fire Brigade is being lauded as a hero after rushing into the burning Notre Dame Cathedral to rescue holy relics. https://t.co/O0XVyq3Dd7— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 16, 2019
What a beautiful scene unfolding here tonight. Impromptu mass in the street, steps away from #NotreDame pic.twitter.com/FZlGb92v6p— Daniele Hamamdjian (@DHamamdjian) April 16, 2019
Catholicism is but one Christian denomination. The Pope is the leader of the Catholic Church NOT all Christians and NOT all Christianity.— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 16, 2019
Give him a break. He's probably grieving the loss.
— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019"I was very pained and I feel very close to all of you"
Pope Francis express his affection to the French people following the devastating #NotreDameCathedralFire pic.twitter.com/QMx5no8GOZ
๐ซ๐ท New York's #OneWTC and the Mostar Bridge in Bosnia lit up in the colors of France's flag after the Notre Dame fire #NotreDameCathedralFire @OneWTC pic.twitter.com/xlsHX5t0ZW— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019
France's President Macron says he wants Notre Dame rebuilt within 5 years.— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019
"We will rebuild the Notre Dame cathedral, even more beautiful." pic.twitter.com/XyncSKQn3h
Thanks to wealthy individuals and companies, almost $1 billion is now pledged to rebuild Notre Dame pic.twitter.com/rYttYJmhMs— TicToc by Bloomberg (@tictoc) April 17, 2019
European Churches: Vandalized, Defecated On, and Torched "Every Day":https://t.co/RqdvexH4LP— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 20, 2019
The future of civilisation in Europe will be decided on what our attitude is towards the great churches and other cultural buildings of our heritage standing in our midst, writes @DouglasKMurray— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) April 15, 2019
https://t.co/3HuFhoWoea
I was speechless. Shep should be fired. https://t.co/BjWa2KYUWi— Chris Barron (@ChrisRBarron) April 15, 2019
This was from last month in Newsweek. Would someone reading exactly what Newsweek reported be cut off??? https://t.co/n1TZlfjgtr— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) April 16, 2019
Only THREE days ago in France one of three women involved in a foiled plot in 2016 to blow up a car packed with gas canisters near the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris was sentenced to eight years in prison.— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) April 15, 2019
Hoping this is one hell of a terrible coincidence.https://t.co/tA4If5J4e0
The same Islamist terror that Marxist, White Supremacist, and Islamist worldwide tell us are fake, lies, made up by Israel Mossad and USA CIA. Islamist also like to say quite frequently that "some people did something". Well, I thought the word some meant a small amount. But apparently, after looking up the word, some can also mean 'an unspecified amount or number'. Very clever use of this word some with this duel meaning because it does also mean 'at least a small amount'. I'm sure the use of this word some is not by accident either. It's surely being used by design.
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A brief summary of who is responding to the tragic Notre Dame fire with 'smiley faces' on Facebook. Appalling. pic.twitter.com/OBANPl9Wpv— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 15, 2019
“Allah est grand”: Muslims laugh, celebrate as blaze destroys Notre Dame cathedral during Holy Week. ๐ https://t.co/HZoLjNRM3v— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 15, 2019
A Muslim politician in Canada wrote a Facebook post in which she said that the Notre Dame fire was “divine intervention” in response to France banning the Islamic veil.— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) April 17, 2019
BuzzFeed could not be reached for comment.https://t.co/Q4yDFmpzGE
Please God. Make it stop. https://t.co/7BwOYcsWpx— Christina Sommers (@CHSommers) April 17, 2019
The world’s most ironic word: Woke— The Independent Whig (@TheWhig) April 17, 2019
The Cathedral containing the Crown of Thorns is just “art and architecture” to @IlhanMN. This is the same flippant attitude towards the sacred that ISIS displayed when destroying Palmyra. https://t.co/2V6FYboIj2— Raheem Kassam (@RaheemKassam) April 15, 2019
I am not a Catholic. I am a non-denominational Christian. This pains me as much as it pains you because all Christians from all denominations are part of the Body of Christ. ❤— Global Awareness 101 (@Mononoke__Hime) April 16, 2019
Our brothers and sisters in Christ are enduring real not perceived persecution regularly worldwide.
ALERT!— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 15, 2019
French Media reported there were no construction workers at the time of the fire at cathรฉdrale Notre Dame & the Church was closed
So WHY is there a video of person at one of the the 2 towers half an hour after the start of the fire?
Anyone have more info?
h/t @sotiridi pic.twitter.com/XijzfbXdXk
BREAKING: Architect of restorations for Notre Dame Speaks Out!— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 17, 2019
Media: "So your're telling us that this type of timber doesn't burn like that?"
Notre Dame Architect: "NO, You know, oak that is 800 years old doesn't burn like that....You would need a lot of kindling to succeed." pic.twitter.com/NBF86wOxDF
PROOF Notre Dame COULD NOT have been an Electrical Fire!— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 17, 2019
This is a short clip from a documentary on Notre Dame Cathedral, made Sept. 16th, 2018
There were no workers in the cathedral, no heat sources near the timber frame. Was this arson? Would Authorities tell us if it was? pic.twitter.com/VR34kTcok2
BREAKING: Famous French Journalist Slams Pope, Elites & Macron for Notre Dame Fire!— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) April 16, 2019
"2018 we had 1063 anti-Christian acts - 2 churches were vandalized PER DAY!"
'The pride of our history is burning & and I accuse all the quislings of being responsible'https://t.co/CTINpaE2lE pic.twitter.com/YDjwuoPRzb
Same scene two years ago ❤ pic.twitter.com/zgkQ5NqnmJ— Elise Aasen (@TheEliselise) April 15, 2019
— Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) April 15, 2019
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