In , the location was chosen for a stone church within the axis of Notre-Dame Street. Despite extensions, the church became too small for its growing congregation. In , the church was only able to accommodate 3, out of its 15, worshippers. The rest had to attend Sunday Mass from the parvis. In , La Fabrique de la paroisse Notre-Dame formed a fifteen-member construction committee in charge of organizing fundraisers and selecting an architect to design a church that could accommodate 8, worshippers and be the most beautiful in North America.
Despite weather conditions that prevented work in winter, construction would only take 35 months, from to , between April and October. However, it took more than ten years for the installation of the bell towers.
O'Donnell passed away in after converting to Catholicism. His crypt is under the Basilica, where a commemorative plaque that you can still see today was placed by the churchwardens. Since it has been home to the famous bell, Jean-Baptiste, which weighs 10, kg and comes from England. Nowadays, the bells ring every hour from 9 a. The melody you hear is the same as the Westminster carillon that Big Ben plays in London. Bourad, who was the designer of this building. The inauguration mass of the cathedral took place on April 11, The most special thing about this church is that it has a diverse system of stained-glass windows depicting Saints and stories in the Bible.
In addition, it is one of the few churches in Vietnam that has a real pipe organ, which is deemed the king of instruments. However, it has been severely damaged and can no longer be used and has been replaced by an electronic pipe organ produced by Rodgers.
Outside the main building lies a small garden that has the statue of Mary - Queen of Peace. This statue, which is made from marble, was completed by the Italian Sculptor G. Ciocchetti in Please note that the church is undergoing a major restoration and entries outside of mass times are not allowed.
Built between and , this site of national historic significance features dual towers reminiscent of Notre-Dame-de-Paris. The West Tower houses the famous 10,kg Jean-Baptiste bell, while the East Tower rings with a carillon of ten bells. Three large statues — Saint-Joseph, the Virgin Mary and Saint-Jean-Baptiste — keep vigil over the entrance to this religious sanctuary that welcomes millions of visitors each year.
Good Friday. Notre Dame is not a parish church, meaning that it does not have a regular body of worshippers who "belong" to the church. But it is still the home church of Paris' Archbishop Michel Aupetit and draws Catholics for vespers evening prayers Masses and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, also known as Penance. Among them is the Holy Crown, believed by many to be from the crown of thorns placed on the head of Jesus, and which the cathedral calls its "the most precious and most venerated relic.
Notre Dame also counts among its treasures two other relics connected to Holy Week: a fragment of the Wood of the Cross, believed by many to be a part of the "true cross" on which Jesus was crucified; and one of the nails that the Romans used to crucify Jesus. Christians in Jerusalem gave the relic to the Emperor Charlemagne in , and it subsequently became a powerful object of veneration for generations of French Catholics.
During the French Revolution, when French secularists destroyed many iconic Catholic pieces of history and art, it was saved and given to the archbishop of Paris, according to the cathedral.
On Monday, as firefighters battled flames at Notre Dame, the safety of the relics was unknown. As the flames rage Archbishop Michel Aupetit of Paris, whose home church is the cathedral, issued a plea for his priests to pray.
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