France's Notre Dame Cathedral, which failed to host Christmas services for the first time in more than 200 years, may never recover from the devastating fire that collapsed the roof and a iconic spire.
, may never recover from the devastating fire that collapsed the roof and a iconic spire, its rector said.
"Today it is not out of danger," he said before Christmas Eve midnight Mass at a nearby church."It will be out of danger when we take out the remaining scaffolding." A wooden liturgical platform was constructed in Saint-Germain to resemble Notre Dame’s,and the cathedral's choir sang at midnight Mass.as flames and smoke spewed from the Gothic marvelWithin days, more than $1 billion was pledged by thousands of donors to finance the reconstruction. It will be needed.
“We need to remove completely the scaffolding in order to make the building safe,” Chauvet said. “Once the scaffolding is removed we need to assess the state of the cathedral, the quantity of stones to be removed and replaced.”authorities shut down streets around the cathedral to decontaminate them after high levels of leadThe cathedral did hold a modest service in June in its Chapel of the Virgin, marking 850 years since the consecration of the cathedral's altar.
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