Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars – a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed. But an accidental fire in peacetime finally stopped the cathedral from celebrating Midnight Mass this year, for the first time in over two centuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/21/no-christmas-mass-at-notre-dame-cathedral-for-first-time-since-1803The restoration of the classic icon
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